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House cats know what they want and how to get it from you
Jul 13, 2009 |
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Anyone who has ever had cats knows how difficult it can be to get them to do anything they don't already want to do. But it seems that the house cats themselves have had distinctly less trouble getting humans ...
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Why the swamp sparrow is hitting the high notes
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Jan 09, 2009 |
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Birdsongs are used extensively as models for animal signaling and human speech, offering a glimpse of how our own communicating abilities developed. A new study by Adrienne DuBois, a graduate student at the ...
Male owls pitch their hoots to advertise body weight to competitors
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Apr 03, 2007 |
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Why do male owls hoot? Researchers from the Centre d'Études Biologiques de Chizé (France) and the University of Sussex (UK) have studied the vocal communication of male European Scops owls, one of the smallest living species ...
Hearing, voice problems worsen seniors' communication skills
May 31, 2009 |
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Hearing and vocal problems go hand-in-hand among the elderly more frequently than previously thought, according to researchers at Duke University Medical Center. Together, they pack a devastating double punch on communication ...
How male owls pitch their wits to show who’s who
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Apr 13, 2007 |
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A male owl's hoot may not be all it seems to rivals when it comes to defending valuable territory, new research has revealed.
Owls' dawn and dusk concerts promote visual communication
Apr 08, 2009 |
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Reporting in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE April 8, Vincenzo Penteriani and Maria Delgado of the Estacion Biologica de Doñana, Spain, describe the evolution of white throat badges in association with d ...
Songbirds' Brains Provide Clues to Human Speech
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Jan 16, 2008 |
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Analyzing how the brains of songbirds respond to singing patterns has provided new information about how humans learn to communicate with each other, according to Duke University researchers.
Researchers studying how singing bats communicate
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Oct 18, 2007 |
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Bats are the most vocal mammals other than humans, and understanding how they communicate during their nocturnal outings could lead to better treatments for human speech disorders, say researchers at Texas A&M University.
Whose voice is that? Scientists discover 'voice' area in the brain of nonhuman primate
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Feb 15, 2008 |
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For vocal animals, recognising species-specific vocalizations is important for survival and social interactions. In humans, a ‘voice' region has been identified that is sensitive to human voices and vocalizations. As this ...
Why female deer like a stag to be a big noise in the forest
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Jun 06, 2007 |
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Impressive antlers may be the most eye-catching attribute of the male red deer, but it's the quality of a stag's mating call that attracts the female of the species, a new study from the University of Sussex, ...
High-tech imaging of inner ear sheds light on hearing, behavior of oldest fossil bird
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jan 14, 2009 |
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The earliest known bird, the magpie-sized Archaeopteryx, had a similar hearing range to the modern emu, which suggests that the 145 million-year-old creature — despite its reptilian teeth and long tail — was ...
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