An international team of researchers has uncovered a previously undetected structure in the birdsong of Bengalese finches ...

The way Bengalese finches learn songs from older birds is more similar to human parents teaching babies to talk than ...

Language is one of the few faculties that still seems to be uniquely human. Other animals, like chimpanzees and songbirds, have developed elaborate communication systems, but none appears to convey ...

Scientists say birds organize their singing using the same mathematical formula found in human speech. The post Science ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

A superb fairy-wren calls to a Horsfield's bronze-cuckoo. Brood parasites like cuckoos lay eggs in other birds' nests and leave them behind for the host birds to raise. David Ongley / Cornell Lab of ...