An international team of researchers have published a new review in Animal Behavior revealing how communication enables cooperation between different animal species. The review, titled "The ecology ...

A team of scientists from Switzerland and France propose that animals learned to communicate at this rhythm hundreds of millions of years ago, before the emergence of mammals, because it's the speed ...

We have changed from wanting animals to understand human language to wanting to understand how they communicate with each ...

It requires animals to interpret cues and signals outside of their own species’ behavioral frameworks. Still, in numerous scenarios, cooperation between species could prove useful—for example, in ...

In the Karoo, South Africa’s vast semidesert, an African striped mouse basks in the morning warmth outside the bush it calls home. Nearby, audio equipment casts a long shadow on the rust-colored earth ...

Julie Elie worked out how zebra finches announce who they are, what they are doing and use individual signatures ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don’t? It’s one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

I started this blog a little over a year ago as a way of exploring the intersection of animal behavior research and human psychology. Research on animal behavior provides a lot of insights for ...

The way sperm whales communicate may be more similar to human language than previously thought. The acoustic properties of whale calls resemble vowels, a defining feature of human language, according ...