More than 60 years later, we can still wake up to the sound of birdsong, but as ubiquitous as the dawn chorus is, it’s not totally clear why birds do it. Now, a new study (yet to be peer reviewed) ...

Birds like crows, jackdaws, or magpies are highly intelligent and social. This raises the question of whether crows can be ...

We often applaud animals for learning tricks. But until recently, we rarely acknowledged that significant intelligence ...

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This year, Stanford University organized Agents4Science , the first open conference to accept papers written entirely by ...

Zebra finches don’t just mimic sounds—they understand them, revealing surprising insights into animal communication and ...

Nights draw in with the time change. We come home at day’s end in dusk, or even nighttime. It is amazing how many drivers ...

In studying animal communication, it’s hard to know whether animals react instinctively to the vocalizations of others or ...

For years, scientists suspected that fetuses could hear the muffled murmur of the outside world and that these early sounds might shape their brains. Now, researchers at the Université de Montréal ...

In recent years, ChatGPT has exploded in popularity, with nearly 200 million users pumping a total of over a billion prompts into the app every day. These prompts may seem to complete requests out of ...

Birds are brilliant animals, and crows are among the most intelligent. They’re often too smart for their own good, and they are capable of recognizing and remembering people they interact with. That’s ...