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Dolphin Intelligence
When one of Earth's smartest creatures vocalizes, it fuels a heated debate among scientists: Are dolphins actually speaking a complex language?
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Why Are Dogs So Insanely Happy to See Us When We Get Home?
Unlike a certain companion animal that will go unnamed, dogs lose their minds when reunited with their owners. But it’s not immediately obvious why our canine companions should grant us such an over-the-top greeting—especially considering the power imbalance that exists between the two species. We spoke to the experts to find out why. By George Dvorsky.
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Squirrels Take Up Bird Alarms To Foil The Enemy
It can take more than just a keen ear to figure out what animals are saying. Sometimes, scientists are learning, you have to talk back to map the rich networks of conversation in a forest.
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Whales synchronize their songs across oceans, and there’s sheet music to prove it
Visualizing the structure of whale music reveals more similarities to human music than you might expect. By David Rothenberg.
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Debate over chimpanzee ‘accent’ study
A debate is unfolding about the finding, published in February, that chimpanzees can adapt their grunts to communicate with new neighbours.
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Crows Are Smart, But Are They Smart Enough to Fall in Love?
Whether crows are bringing a little girl gifts, putting some English majors to shame, or learning to remember faces, the birds just continue to amaze us with their intelligence. Many studies and stories compare their smarts to those of human children. But judging intelligence can be a difficult proposition with humans, let alone birds... By Eric Grundhauser.
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Ravens’ fear of unseen snoopers hints they have theory of mind
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.
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Horses Can Read Human Facial Expressions
And they don't always like what they see. By Lauren Cassani Davis.
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Birds use language like humans, joining calls together to form sentences
Birds form complex sentences by joining calls together to create new meanings, scientists have found. By Sarah Knapton.
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Dolphins Are Helping Us Hunt for Aliens
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.
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Dolphins have a language that helps them solve problems together
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.
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I Asked Leading Entomologists: ‘What’s The Smartest Bug In The World?’
Some insects can count, recognize human faces, even invent languages. By Dan Nosowitz. (June 23, 2016)
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Orangutan ‘copies human speech’
An orangutan copying sounds made by researchers offers new clues to how human speech evolved, scientists say.
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Twinkle, Twinkle, Vogel Staar
On Mozart's Feathered Collaborator. By Elena Passarello.
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These Linguists Want to Help You Speak Fluent Cat
A new project is trying to crack the code of what different meows mean. By Cari Romm. (Apr. 27, 2016)
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Listening for Extraterrestrial Blah Blah
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.
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Researchers “Translate” Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—A Lot
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.
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Thinking in the Deep: Inside the Mind of an Octopus
In “Other Minds,” Peter Godfrey-Smith shows how the abilities of the octopus offer insight into the evolution of animal intelligence. By Carl Safina.
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What We’ve Learned from Giving Dolphins LSD
Communication between humans and animals may be possible after all. By Daniel Oberhaus.
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All the Animals That Love Touchscreens
From wolves to penguins to tortoises, creatures of all stripes are discovering the joys of computing. Could it improve their lives? By Cara Giaimo.
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