Bioacousticians are finding animal communication patterns once thought unique to humans — discoveries that challenge ideas about what makes human language special.

It is hard to be attentive to all the information that is around us; we need to focus on particular signals or sensory channels to get more details. This is why alerting signals are frequently used in ...

Nonhuman animals (animals) are constantly "talking" with one another using sounds, smells, visual signals, and various combinations thereof. In his fascinating new book titled Why Animals Talk: The ...

The Regent Honeyeaters of Australasia are forgetting how to talk. The songbird's habitat has been so severely devastated that its numbers are dwindling. Worse, the ones that remain are so scattered ...