Besides being an adorable and important part of marine ecosystems, baby seals might have a unusual ability. They can change the pitch of their voices to be better understood, like humans do, a new ...

The European starling boasts a remarkable repertoire. Versatile songbirds that learn warbles, whistles, calls, and songs throughout their lives, starlings rank among the most advanced avian vocal ...

Figure 1: Genotyping of the transgenic zebra finch. Figure 3: Progressive song change in adult mutants. The neuropathogenesis observed in the CBG song circuit may contribute to the severe song ...

Figure 1: Core and shell pathways of LMAN. Figure 2: Distribution of pitch in lesioned versus control birds. We also calculated the coefficient of variation across syllables for each feature to ...

Birdsong, like human speech, consists of a sequence of temporally precise movements acquired through vocal learning. The learning of such sequential vocalizations depends on the neural function of the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Some animal vocalizations develop reliably in the absence of relevant experience, but an intriguing subset of animal vocalizations is learned: ...

A very interesting study was just published that finds many parrots use words in appropriate contexts. This study, based on an analysis of almost 900 companion parrots as reported by a flock of ...

Before learning to speak, human babies go through a vocal stage known as babbling, which is a well documented part of the vocal language acquisition process. Basically, babbling is how an animal ...

The European starling boasts a remarkable repertoire. Versatile songbirds that learn warbles, whistles, calls, and songs throughout their lives, starlings rank among the most advanced avian vocal ...

The better a songbird is at working its way around obstacles to retrieve a snack, the more complex its vocal learning ability will be. The European starling boasts a remarkable repertoire. Versatile ...

It's a research which may solve the riddle of how vocal learning evolved in humans - birds with the ability to learn songs use "similar brain structures" to sing their tunes. NEW YORK: It's a research ...