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 ...

Parrots, corvids and a variety of other birds aren’t the only animals that can mimic human speech. According to a study published today, an orca, Orcinus orca, has been trained to mimic human ...

Ms Kelley said: "We know that lots of birds are gifted impersonators and copy the sounds of other birds, animals and people. However less is known about why birds do this or how this behaviour has ...

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For Erich Jarvis, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University, the neural pathways he finds particularly interesting inside a bird’s brain are those that enable the bird to make new sounds from ...

Usually, birds copy what they hear the most. Birds in rural areas have added the sound of horses whinnying, lawn mowers and even chainsaws to their repertoires.

Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a potential mate, ward off predators, or just sing for pleasure. But the conditions that contribute to the immense diversity of the sounds they ...

Birds, which have the longest necks of all terrestrial vertebrates, can use the long necks as resonators to amplify the sound. “If you're small, you don't have too much energy available to produce a ...

If the sounds are of certain frequencies, they can interfere with bird communication; the birds won’t be able to hear each other. The noise can also drown out the sounds of predators and prey.

Ms Kelley said: "We know that lots of birds are gifted impersonators and copy the sounds of other birds, animals and people. However less is known about why birds do this or how this behaviour has ...