Scientists find some parallels with human speech in cheeps and trills of birdsong. If zebra finches notice timbral features more acutely than temporal features, I wonder if certain populations of ...
In our quest to find what makes humans unique, we often compare ourselves with our closest relatives: the great apes. But when it comes to understanding the quintessentially human capacity for ...
Nathan Pieplow, author of the “Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds,” will deliver a free, illustrated lecture on The Language of Birds, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17 in Fleischmann Auditorium at the ...