McGill University researchers have identified "universal" vocal patterns across hundreds of bird species and found that many ...

A new study from McGill University identifies shared patterns of rhythm, pitch and phrasing across bird species and human ...

Whales – a mother and a calf – swim offshore of Maui, Hawaii. A new study said whale song – the sounds and vocalizations of whales – follows the same statistical properties as human language. Image ...

The song phrases of many songbird species follow patterns that are similar to those used in human speech, researchers have found. At least in some respects. If you listen to songbirds, you will ...

A whale’s dive shapes its song patterns, suggests new research. The study using data from suction caps attached to the aquatic mammals is the first to connect an entire humpback whale song structure ...

All known human languages display a surprising pattern: the most frequent word in a language is twice as frequent as the second most frequent, three times as frequent as the third, and so on. This is ...

Newswise — DALLAS – Jan. 28, 2026 – Like falling dominoes, a sequence of activity in an area of the zebra finch brain plays to completion once initiated, allowing these birds to produce their full ...

Through the use of two advanced audio recording technologies, a collaboration of Monterey Bay researchers has found that blue whales switch from nighttime to daytime singing when they are starting to ...