An international team of researchers have published a new review in Animal Behavior revealing how communication enables cooperation between different animal species. The review, titled "The ecology ...

We have changed from wanting animals to understand human language to wanting to understand how they communicate with each ...

I started this blog a little over a year ago as a way of exploring the intersection of animal behavior research and human psychology. Research on animal behavior provides a lot of insights for ...

In the Karoo, South Africa’s vast semidesert, an African striped mouse basks in the morning warmth outside the bush it calls home. Nearby, audio equipment casts a long shadow on the rust-colored earth ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Birds chirp, sing, and squawk. Cats purr and snarl. Insects click and hiss. Most of these sounds are meant for members of the same ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures ...

You’re lost in the jungle without any other humans around. You need to find a new family. Or your new family could find you.

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...

As scientists use machine learning to decode the sounds of whales, dogs, and dolphins, opinions vary on how best to deploy the technology. Reading time 7 minutes Chirps, trills, growls, howls, squawks ...