Try your hand at bird landscaping, and you’ll quickly learn that landscaping is for the birds—literally! Planting a garden with birds in mind pays off fast, attracting birds in greater numbers with ...

From MLB’s ABS challenge system to Drew Brees calling the Eagles “boring” and hot takes about Kyle Schwarber, the Old Man ...

Parrots are not only beautiful but also very smart as they can learn human words and repeat them in a way that surprises everyone. Some parrots speak so well that people even mistake them for humans ...

Scroll through social media and you’ll find macaws swaying to pop songs, engaging in a shared dance that feels delightfully ...

Justin Gregg offers a playful deep dive into anthropomorphism—our tendency to humanize the nonhuman—that will appeal to ...

The complexity of vocal communication in some primates, whales and birds might approach that of human language.

The greater honeyguide learned to lead humans to beehives, luring them with the promise of honey so they’d unlock the wax the ...

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CBS’ new singing competition The Road will borrow some successful aspects of American Idol and The Voice by featuring fancy guest mentors of its own. Country stars Dustin Lynch and Karen Fairchild, ...

When a baby babbles and their parents respond, these back-and-forth exchanges are more than adorable-if-incoherent chatter—they help to build a baby's emerging language skills. But it turns out this ...

Could a baby’s still-growing brain help set the stage for learning language? Princeton neuroscientists find surprising clues from chatty monkeys who share the power of babble. PRINCETON, N.J. — When a ...

Two tragic cases linking ChatGPT to a murder and a suicide came to prominence this week, with attention turning to how extended conversations and persistence of memory can build to get around the ...