Ars Technica

Do birds have language? It depends on how you define it

In our quest to find what makes humans unique, we often compare ourselves with our closest relatives: the great apes. But when it comes to understanding the quintessential human capacity for language, ...
Noozhawk

Learn About the Original Twitter – Language of Birds

Nathan Pieplow, author of the “Peterson Field Guide to Bird Sounds,” will deliver a free, illustrated lecture on The Language of Birds, 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 17 in Fleischmann Auditorium at the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Do Birds Have Language?

In our quest to find what makes humans unique, we often compare ourselves with our closest relatives: the great apes. But when it comes to understanding the quintessentially human capacity for ...
The Atlantic

Birds Are Stretching the Boundaries of Language

In our quest to find what makes humans unique, we often compare ourselves with our closest relatives: the great apes. But when it comes to understanding the quintessentially human capacity for ...
Ars Technica

Do birds have language? It depends on how you define it

Scientists find some parallels with human speech in cheeps and trills of birdsong. If zebra finches notice timbral features more acutely than temporal features, I wonder if certain populations of ...