When my children were toddlers, our weekends included regular outings to the Baltimore zoo or aquarium. Once back from the zoo, we’d make our own. Our best no-cost amusement was imitating animal ...

Scientists studied guinea pigs' communication to understand how the brain recognizes communication sounds regardless of accents and surrounding noise. In a paper published today in Communications ...

DAVENPORT, Iowa (KWQC) -We know animals can’t speak and express themselves in the same way as humans … but even the smallest and quietest animals have incredible ways of communicating with each other.

This illuminating debut by Mathevon, an animal behavior professor at University of Saint-Etienne, breaks down “how animals make and hear sounds, what information is encoded in their sound signals, ...

Bats live in a world of sounds. They use vocalizations both to communicate with their conspecifics and for navigation. For the latter, they emit sounds in the ultrasonic range, which echo and enable ...

Imagine listening to chirping birds and being able to pull out your phone and decipher what they're saying to each other. Then picture yourself going on a safari in Africa and following a conversation ...

Nonhuman animals communicate in many different ways. I've long followed the work of Professor Nicolas Mathevon and was thrilled to learn about his new book The Voices of Nature: How and Why Animals ...

It’s a question that has fascinated researchers and thinkers of various traditions. Animals and humans have always interpenetrated and shaped each other’s worlds, but the project of understanding how ...