The parakeets commonly kept as pets could offer fresh clues about vocal learning and potential treatments for speech ...

Shutterstock Image Turns out the sound of traffic is annoying to more than just people. Scientists have discovered that ...

Ultrasonic sounds are high-frequency sound waves that exceed 20,000 hertz, a range far beyond what the human ear can detect.

While some captive birds have been reported to be able to imitate human-made sounds, such as human words and coughs, ...

there may be restricted opportunity for an animal to escape aversive sound. The value of different types of soundscape indices in captive environments is an interesting debate that will hopefully ...

Different tissues reflect these waves differently. By capturing the echoes, an ultrasound machine can help doctors identify heart defects or tumours. Ultrasound machines can even create images of ...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

There are a number of animals that use echolocation to hunt ... and other dolphins of the sea utilize different vocalizations for different purposes. Mothers will even spend an entire week repeating ...

There are at least some markers of joy that appear to be quite widespread across animals. One is vocalizations that resemble ...

New research reveals that parrots produce speech using brain structures remarkably similar to those in humans.

Humans aren’t the only ones who are prone to road rage. Scientists have found that certain songbirds in the Galapagos behave ...

In a literal way, [my comedy] is a different animal because I do these animal sounds [during my show] and I’m very theatrical in what I do. This is different comedy than what you might get ...