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 ...

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A new study sheds light on whether animal vocalizations, like human words, are constructed from smaller building blocks. By analyzing calls of the Australian chestnut-crowned babbler, the researchers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Animals can fall into an "ecological trap" by altering their behaviour in the "wrong direction" in response to climate change, researchers say. The so-called "rescue hypothesis" suggests many species ...