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They can also copy non-bird sounds like car alarms, human voices, engines, and even R2D2 from Star Wars. Starlings learn to mimic various sounds and even pass them down from one generation to the ...
Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure.
This is another bird song that sounds different in other regions of the country. No matter where you go, they have the basic song structure, but the regional accents make cardinals sound slightly ...
Rockefeller University neuroscientist Erich Jarvis discusses how studying vocal learning in birds can help us better understand our own brains.
Birds in Copenhagen are giving new meaning to the phrase "bird calls," as ornithologists there say that birds are incorporating the sound of a ringing cellular phone into songs.
The bowerbird mimics by directly listening to the calls of other species Scientists believe they are a step closer to discovering why some species of bird mimic the sounds made by other birds, animals ...
“Although the ability to copy sounds from conspecifics is wide-spread in birds”, the authors write in their paper, “it is strikingly rare in mammals, and among primates it is uniquely human.” ...
At the Claiborne and Churchill Winery in San Luis Obispo’s Edna Valley, composer and winemaker Brook Munro has written work inspired by the harvest that incorporates the sounds of the vineyard.
There's a clever reason your cat makes that adorable chattering and chirping noise when they see birds.
The bowerbird mimics by directly listening to the calls of other species Scientists believe they are a step closer to discovering why some species of bird mimic the sounds made by other birds, animals ...
Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world.