The Conversation

Why learning animal sounds can be crucial to children’s language development

Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA-FR. Western University provides funding as a member of The Conversation CA. Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to ...
MIT Technology Review

How machine learning is helping us probe the secret names of animals

You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have ...
UPI

Animals that can learn sounds have higher-pitched calls, study finds

Nov. 16 (UPI) --Animals capable of learning sounds tend to produce calls at higher pitches, a study published Tuesday by the journal Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological ...
Forbes

Meet The Only Non-Human Animal Known To Use Names In The Wild. Hint: It Lives Underwater

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about biodiversity and the hidden quirks of the natural world. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This ...
New Scientist

Bats can learn to copy sounds and it may teach us about human speech

Bats can learn to mimic specific sounds, which puts them into an elite group of animals capable of this. Studying how bats can copy noises could help us learn more about humans’ unique capacity for ...