Lions! Tigers! Bears! If only they talked! Just imagine how many prehistoric tragedies could have been avoided if humanity’s ...

Julie Elie has spent a lot of time listening to zebra finches. Elie, a researcher at the University of California, Berkeley, ...

Nonhuman animals (animals) are constantly "talking" with one another using sounds, smells, visual signals, and various combinations thereof. In his fascinating new book titled Why Animals Talk: The ...

Julie Elie has been studying zebra finch vocalizations for years. Now, she has won the Coller-Dolittle Prize for progress ...

Increasingly, however, talking with the animals is becoming less of a fantasy. This doesn’t just invite some fantastic conversations, but recontexualizes the rights we allot to non-human creatures.

Scientists recently learned that chimpanzees have their own language, allowing them to communicate in sentence-like structures. But what if we could one day walk up to animals like that and hold an ...

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 ...

If you’ve played Where Winds Meet, you may have spotted animals everywhere — cats, dogs, birds — but wondered if you could actually talk to them. That uncertainty can make you skip interacting with ...

Kelso Harper: Hey, science nerds! This is Kelso Harper, one of the producers of Science, Quickly. This week we’re looking back at some of our favorite episodes of the year. I chose one that features ...