Squawks, creaky doors, trills, bellows and a lot of grunts — our wildlife makes some bizarre and beguiling noises. But which one should get the shout-out as Australia's favourite animal sound? It's time to make a call.

You know instantly when someone is speaking to an infant or small child. It turns out that dolphin mothers also use a kind of high-pitched baby talk.

The ability to visualise an object associated with a sound was once thought to be unique to humans. But some birds seem to have that ability as well, a study has found.

The brain of a honeybee is tiny — the size of a pin head — and contains less than a million neurons, compared to the 85 billion in our own brains. Yet... By Rowan Hooper.

A new website helps you translate human words and emotions into a form of elephant communication. By Casey Smith. (Aug. 11, 2017)

They combine tunes at musically similar places, like the world’s biggest deejays. By Ed Yong.

From wolves to penguins to tortoises, creatures of all stripes are discovering the joys of computing. Could it improve their lives? By Cara Giaimo.

Communication between humans and animals may be possible after all. By Daniel Oberhaus.

In “Other Minds,” Peter Godfrey-Smith shows how the abilities of the octopus offer insight into the evolution of animal intelligence. By Carl Safina.

A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they “speak” to one another as individuals. By Jason Daley.

If one is looking for signals from an extraterrestrial civilization, why not practice on some of the non-human communication systems? By Laurance R. Doyle.

A new project is trying to crack the code of what different meows mean. By Cari Romm. (Apr. 27, 2016)

On Mozart's Feathered Collaborator. By Elena Passarello.

An orangutan copying sounds made by researchers offers new clues to how human speech evolved, scientists say.

Some insects can count, recognize human faces, even invent languages. By Dan Nosowitz. (June 23, 2016)

When faced with a puzzle that two can solve better than one, bottlenose dolphins chatter away, suggesting that they have a specific vocalisation for working together. By Robin Wylie.

When twelve men gathered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia to discuss the art and science of alien hunting in 1961, the Order of the Dolphin was born… By Daniel Oberhaus.

Birds form complex sentences by joining calls together to create new meanings, scientists have found. By Sarah Knapton.

And they don't always like what they see. By Lauren Cassani Davis.

The cunning birds hide their food more quickly if they think they are being watched, suggesting they can attribute mental states to others. By Sam Wong.