For years, scientists have been able to link many animal calls with particular situations. A warning call may send a group ...

The neurobiologist Erich Jarvis studies the few species capable of speech. He has long hoped to genetically engineer an ...

Zebra finches have a more complex way of communicating than previously thought. A new study published in the journal Science found that the sociable songbird does not just recognize and organize ...

Dr Julie Elie of the University of California, Berkeley has won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize, receiving $100,000 for decoding zebra finch vocalisations. She identified 11 core calls and mapped their ...

In some of the, well, less stressful corners of social media, you can hear all kinds of bird calls, people sharing recordings of birds that they took with their phones. (SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED ...

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