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After you download the app Merlin Bird ID, you can use your smartphone to identify sounds and match them to the birds in ...
A new AI tool that picks out bird and amphibian sounds in audio recordings could improve how ecologists monitor and study ...
Discover how mountain chickadees use complex calls to communicate food sources, social interactions, and predator presence.
The cat was playing hard to get — but apparently, she wasn’t the only animal lurking nearby.“I took my phone out to capture ...
The reason why birds make such a racket at dawn is still unclear. But researchers are now pouring cold water on one popular ...
When it comes to testing, I have nothing against driving crossovers, nor do I pooh-pooh electric vehicles or hybrids. They invariably prove interesting and occasionally fun to drive. Besides, they are ...
Credit: Ulf Beichle / Colossal; Kasper Berg / Colossal The tooth-billed pigeon is a large bird native to Samoa's rainforests, and which has only been found within this one country.
Science has proved that some bird species are extraordinarily smart. For example, crows understand the concept of zero, and an African gray parrot named Alex had a vocabulary of over 100 words.
When it comes to unexpected sights on a ski trip, the western capercaillie might top the list. Looking like a cross between a wild turkey and a dodo bird (and sounding like a dinosaur!), these large ...
Dodo, Raphus cucullatus, Didus ineptus, extinct flightless bird. Illustration signed S (George Shaw), but appears based on George Edwards' illustration in 'A Natural History of Uncommon Birds,' 1750.
The birds, which were larger than turkeys, were killed for food by Portuguese sailors who discovered them on the island of Mauritius, off the east coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean.
The company’s most talked-about projects include efforts to bring back the woolly mammoth, dire wolf, northern white rhinoceros, Tasmanian tiger, and the dodo bird. SOUND ON.