For decades, scientists have known that only a few groups of birds—songbirds, parrots, and hummingbirds—can learn to produce new sounds. But a new article in The Quarterly Review of Biology reveals ...

The lovable Star Wars droid is helping to shed light on why some bird species are better at mimicking sounds than others ...

There are over 350 species of hummingbirds, but only a little over a dozen visit or stay the U.S. Learning the different ...

The Rev. Fred Morris, then the president of the Florida Council of Churches, once observed that losing a species to ...

When you think of birds imitating sounds, parrots and starlings might come to mind. They're famous for copying human speech, ...

Barn owls are nocturnal birds of prey that are known for their distinctive heart-shaped faces and haunting calls. They’re not very large, with an average weight of only about a pound, but they are ...

In studying animal communication, it’s hard to know whether animals react instinctively to the vocalizations of others or ...

A varied thrush adorns the cover of 2018's "BirdNote: Chirps, Quirks and Stories of 100 Birds from the Popular Public Radio Show." The book's illustrator, Emily Poole, is a Eugene-based artist. KLCC ...

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Sarah has been an editor and contributor for Game Rant since 2015. After meeting her first Chocobo, she never looked back. Sarah majored in game design in college and utilizes that knowledge to ...

Immerse yourself in the soothing symphony of spring with our captivating video, "Spring Sounds! Chirping Birds & Nature." Experience the calming melodies of chirping birds set against the backdrop of ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...