Baby chicks link certain sounds with shapes, just like humans do

A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba ...
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Five Dramatic Ways Animals Respond to Human Noise, From Mimicking Car Alarms While Wooing Mates to Calling Higher Over the Din of Traffic

As human-caused sound gets louder around the world, some animals change their behavior and many creatures suffer health issues Olivia Ferrari As human noise increases around the world, some animals ...
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Researchers teach orca to imitate human language, other animal sounds

ANTIBES, France -- In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and ...

Newly hatched chickens form the same sound association we do

The initial finding dates all the way back to 1947, when someone discovered that people associated some word-like sounds with ...
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Polly Wants a Conviction: Can Animals Testify in Court?

Imagine walking into a courtroom and seeing a cage near the witness stand. Inside sits a bright, alert parrot whose owner was ...
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Insects are making sounds the human ear can't hear. One Midwest scientist is listening

A group of treehoppers sit on a plant stem in University of Missouri Professor Rex Cocroft's lab. Humans can't hear the vibrations these insects use to communicate with, but Cocroft has been able to ...
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Not just humans: 5 animals that laugh, cackle and giggle

Laughter is often called the most human sound. It carries joy, relief, connection, and sometimes even healing. For centuries, ...
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AI is helping to decode animals’ speech. Will it also let us talk with them?

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...