Monkeys known as macaques possess the vocal anatomy to produce "clearly intelligible" human speech but lack the brain circuitry to do so, according to new research.
Plants & Animals
Dec 9, 2016
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There's a particular order to the sounds of the ultrasonic song a male mouse performs to impress his potential mate.
Plants & Animals
Oct 20, 2016
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Delegates at a global wildlife conference on Sunday voted to ban international trade in African grey parrots, one of the world's most trafficked birds.
Ecology
Oct 2, 2016
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Do you understand what your cat is saying? And does your cat understand what you are saying? The new research project "Melody in human-cat communication" at Lund University in Sweden may find the answer.
Plants & Animals
Mar 10, 2016
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An international team of scientists led by Duke University researchers has uncovered key structural differences in the brains of parrots that may explain the birds' unparalleled ability to imitate sounds and human speech.
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2015
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The secret communication of gibbons has been interpreted for the first time in a study published in the open access journal BMC Evolutionary Biology. The research reveals the likely meaning of a number of distinct gibbon ...
Evolution
Apr 7, 2015
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Mexico's WikiLeaks-inspired whistleblower website is already making waves just days after its launch, even though it has yet to expose any government scandals.
Internet
Mar 18, 2015
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Scientist still dont know how human speech evolved from our great ape ancestors. But a study involving Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) and the Pongo Foundation has uncovered new calls from orang-utans that show ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 9, 2015
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Think that sparrow whistling outside your bedroom window is nothing more than pleasant background noise?
Plants & Animals
Dec 23, 2014
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When people hear another person talking to them, they respond not only to what is being said—those consonants and vowels strung together into words and sentences—but also to other features of that speech—the emotional ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 26, 2014
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