Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Bird calls may have meaning


Filed under: Animals and language

A deep-voiced black-capped chickadee may wonder why other birds ignore it, but there may be a good reason behind the snub, says a University of Alberta study that looked into how the bird responds to calls.

Read the full article at BrightSurf


See also:

>  Bird Can Mimic Others in Context to Apparently Signal Alarm
>  Decoding the long calls of the orangutan
>  Bird song goes out of fashion too
>  Bird Brains Suggest How Vocal Learning Evolved
>  Infants able to identify humans as source of speech, monkeys as source of monkey calls

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