Scientists find some parallels with human speech in cheeps and trills of birdsong. If zebra finches notice timbral features more acutely than temporal features, I wonder if certain populations of ...

When birds talk, we should listen. They may have a very important message about what is happening in our environment. Birds vocalize for a variety of reasons. In a relaxed state, they use contact ...

In our quest to find what makes humans unique, we often compare ourselves with our closest relatives: the great apes. But when it comes to understanding the quintessentially human capacity for ...

Neilson Spearhead Nature Preserve will host a Bird Language 101 workshop from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, at 48851 County 29, south of Bemidji. "Have you ever wondered ...

We're just about two weeks away from the first day of spring, but if you look out the window there's still lots of snow and ice across our region.... Mar 07, 2014 — We're just about two weeks away ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by Jessica McLachlan shows a fairy-wren. Scientists have discovered that birds can learn to recognize alarm ...

DURHAM, N.C. -- Neurobiologists have discovered that a nearly identical version of a gene whose mutation produces an inherited language deficit in humans is a key component of the song-learning ...

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THE subject of bird language has been much discussed, frequently with a good deal of heat. At one time it was fashionable to deride the notion that birds might have a language of their own. The ...

In our quest to find what makes humans unique, we often compare ourselves with our closest relatives: the great apes. But when it comes to understanding the quintessential human capacity for language, ...