Whereas most races are content to evolve slowly and carefully over thousands of generations, discarding a prehensile toe here, nervously hazarding another nostril there, the Haggunenons would have done for Charles Darwin what a squadron of Arcturan Stunt Apples would have done for Sir Isaac Newton.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
Wild Life: Prairie Dog Language (www.atlasobscura.com)
Pooping, Flapping Ears, And Rumbling: The Weird Ways Elephants Get Their Friends' Attention (www.iflscience.com)
Whales are speaking in secret language using ‘alphabet of clicks’ (www.the-sun.com)
Scientists Find an ‘Alphabet’ in Whale Songs (www.nytimes.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.sdf.org/post/16469373
The 35 million-year-old adaptation that helps lemurs sound bigger than they are (www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk)
University of Glasgow study involving parrots gives new insight (www.glasgowtimes.co.uk)
New Research on Animal Communication Shows Their Cultures Are Often Complex and Cumulative (sentientmedia.org)
Recordings of little auk colony reveal more about Arctic seabirds (oceanographicmagazine.com)
Research Shows Baby Bird Development Harmed By Sound Of Cars (www.miragenews.com)
Hearing the impact of climate change in Okinawa, one bird call at a time (www.japantimes.co.jp)
Why don’t female crickets chirp? (theconversation.com)
"Incredible" clip shows scientist and octopus "communicating" in the wild (www.newsweek.com)
Invasive plants alter the soundscape of ecosystems (www.earth.com)
Perceptual (but not acoustic) features predict singing voice preferences (www.nature.com)
Scientists turn bird dreams into captivating music (www.earth.com)
Schools of Fish Can Make Less Noise than Solitary Swimmer, Study Shows (www.sci.news)
AI discovers complex crooning is key to a female songbird’s heart (www.newsgram.com)
Play that funky music: Lemurs grooving with personal sound system at Scottish safari park (www.scotsman.com)
Is Animal Communication the Next Frontier for Translation AI? (slator.com)
The role of cerebellum in learned vocal communication in adult songbirds (www.nature.com)
Spider Courtship Decoded by Machine Learning (www.i-programmer.info)
Animal Communication: A Physical Review (bioengineering.hyperbook.mcgill.ca)
Three dimensions of humpback whale communication (www.tuftsdaily.com)
If aliens arrive, how will we talk to them? These experts have some answers (www.abc.net.au)