AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo ...

To do this, Berthet and her colleagues built a database of 700 bonobo calls and deciphered them using methods drawn from ...

Would the monkeys develop regional vocalizations that were contrary to how their species normally communicated? Can animals ...

How do we know whether nonhuman animals—mammals ... like jazz bands, bluegrass bands sound different depending on the players, even when they play the same songs. In the 1960s several bluegrass ...

On global capitalism and shipping as its engine, deep sea mining, the climate crisis and ‘Deep Water’, his work looks at how ...

How does the science of de-extinction work, and what kinds of ethical questions does it raise? In the case of the thylacine, the first step is sequencing the extinct animal's DNA – the genetic ...

Kālewa Correa, curator of Hawai‘i and the Pacific, Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center Why do birds and humans have varied songs while most other animals ... of phonetic sounds we need ...

via Wikimedia Commons A sound that has baffled scientists since the 1960s, the Bio-duck was finally associated with minke whales in 2014. The seasonal quacking-like noise was identified using acoustic ...

Most people expect a dog to bark or a cat to meow. But nature doesn’t always follow the script. Across the animal kingdom, ...

Guests can take their new knowledge of how farm animals sound in different languages and put it to use at our farm animal petting zoo. New this year is a performance by Griot Drum Ensemble ...

if only because of the sheer speed with which it can organise huge volumes of data to better detect patterns between animals’ sounds and movements in their interactions with us, you’d be ...