Countless YouTube videos feature pet birds singing and talking to their owners. Although it may seem like simple mimicry, ...
Bonjour! Ni hao! Merhaba! If you move to a new country as an adult, you have to work much harder to get past that initial “hello” in the local language than if you’d moved as a child. Why does it take ...
Kate T. Snyder is in the Department of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA, and in the Evolutionary Studies Initiative, Vanderbilt University. Nicole Creanza is ...
The study of birdsong exemplifies a neuroethological approach to understanding brain function, in which a detailed knowledge of naturally occurring behaviours can inform and guide the search for ...