Who knew canaries were taught songs? And who knew there were mechanical devices called serinettes that, when cranked by hand, taught new melodies to London Fancys, Yorkshire Spangles, Norwich Yellows, ...
There are so many blessings to be had when we share our lives with animals. Our interactions with our companions often depend on what type of creature we care for, and so, too, do the joys we receive ...
Billionaire Eddie Stern doesn’t mind giving less affluent investors a kick in the wallet. The 38-year old money manager, whose family built a $3 billion fortune by selling birdseed and other pet ...
The work appears in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Ramping up activity Using traditional imaging methods, scientists had previously observed the HVC—a key brain region for ...
The former operations chief and second in command of the Afghan Taliban has been "singing like a male canary" since his arrest last month in Karachi, Pakistan, counterintelligence officials said ...
This first of a series exploring humanity’s “communal fears, grief, and passion as we try to protect our natural world” is a triumph. Van Uden (editor of The Off-Season) brings Continue reading » Lies ...
Every heroine in Birds of Prey has her own special set of powers, but Dinah Lance, aka Black Canary (played by Jurnee Smollett-Bell), might have the coolest powers of all: her voice is her secret ...
A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence tackles this by focusing on female canaries, which do not normally sing, but nevertheless contain the full neural machinery for ...