Once at risk of being wiped out, humpback whales charted a remarkable comeback thanks to their songs. In 1979, National ...

Videogames aren't as hooked on loon sonics as movies and music are, though once you know what you're listening for, the ...

A device installed at Sax-Zim Bog delivers bird songs to followers in real time. Others to come will aid conservation efforts ...

Birds speak different languages – but when danger strikes, some learn to listen, decoding unfamiliar calls through the voices ...

In a clip from David Attenborough 's 1998 BBC TV series Life of Birds, a lyrebird imitates a chainsaw, kookaburra and car ...

A new paper from Purdue’s Bryan Pijanowski and colleagues looks at all the ways sound influences human, animal and environmental health It’s 2 a.m. and you’re woken by a motorcycle revving its engine ...

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It may sound like a simple - and simply dull - statement of fact, the kind of thing that people refer to as a 'passing comment' or deploy as 'filler' to fix a dreaded awkward silence. But, while it ...

Volunteers have found new pairs of powerful owls in South Australia's south-east, where the species is rarely seen. The owls' calls were recorded as part of an acoustic monitoring project across the ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...

There were no birds onstage at the University of Hong Kong last weekend, but the sounds – trills, hoots, warbles – suggested otherwise. In the city’s first-ever bird call competition, participants ...

Are you a bird person now? “Am I a bird person now? Am I a bird person now?” exclaims one incredulous TikTok user whose Merlin app detected a tufted titmouse, a cardinal and a Carolina wren within ...