Move over, parrots. There’s another bird with some impressive “language” skills: the chestnut-crowned babbler. Scientists studying the social birds have discovered that they can rearrange meaningless ...

People have the remarkable ability to generate meaning out of meaningless sounds by arranging them in a, well, meaningful way. That’s how we form words. We used to think that this was a uniquely human ...

Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but a new study, publishing June 29th in the Open Access journal PLOS ...

ZURICH, Switzerland, June 30 (UPI) --Like humans, birds combine otherwise unintelligible sounds into sequences that reveal meaning. Until now, researchers considered this element of language formation ...

Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but a new study has revealed that babbler birds are also able to ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. There's ...

The enigmatic black-browed babbler has been studied in the wild for the first time following its reappearance after a 172-year absence. The team spotted a pair of babblers in dense shrubbery near the ...

Muhammad Suranto and Muhammad Rizky Fauzan captured a black-browed babbler in October 2020, took photos of it for identification, and released it safely. Photo by M. Suranto When Muhammad Suranto and ...

The black-browed babbler has long been one of Indonesia’s most enigmatic birds. By Rachel Nuwer What might be Asia’s longest-missing bird just came out of hiding. For the first time in 170 years, ...

Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but a new study has revealed that babbler birds are also able to ...