All Articles Tagged As: animal communication

Birds' harmonious duets can be 'aggressive audio warfare,' study finds (9/7/2008)

Researchers have new insight into the motivating factors that drive breeding pairs of some tropical bird species to sing duets. Those duets can be so closely matched that human listeners often mistake them for solos. ...> Full Article

Honest Lovers? Fallow Buck Groans Reveal Their Status And Size During The Rut (9/4/2008)

have shown for the first time that sexually selected vocalizations can signal social dominance in mammals other than primates ...> Full Article

Graduate student's paper sheds light on bonobo language (9/3/2008)

Linguistic tools used to analyze human language applied to conversation between scientist and bonobo ...> Full Article

Migrating songbirds learn survival tips on the fly (6/26/2008)

Observing local birds' 'mob' behavior helps migrants avoid predators ...> Full Article

From the egg, baby crocodiles call to each other and to mom (6/24/2008)

pre-hatching calls of baby Nile crocodiles actually mean something to their siblings and to their mothers ...> Full Article