Researchers conducted a global study of the factors that influence bird sounds, using more than 100,000 audio recordings from around the world. Birds make sounds to communicate, whether to find a ...

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Next to insects, birds sadly seem to get short shrift from humans. We remain powerfully drawn to scenes of lions hunting in the Kalahari desert or rhinos jousting in eastern India, but remain mostly ...

When a bird hears this call, it instinctively investigates. During that moment, explained co-author Damián Blasi, a language scientist at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain, the bird begins to associate ...