Move over, parrots. There’s another bird with some impressive “language” skills: the chestnut-crowned babbler. Scientists studying the social birds have discovered that they can rearrange meaningless ...

A small gregarious bird that lives in the Australian outback has been found to communicate with one another using a simple form of language – the first species other than humans known to do so.

Stringing together meaningless sounds to create meaningful signals was previously thought to be the preserve of humans alone, but a new study has revealed that babbler birds are also able to ...

A bird in the Australian outback is communicating in a way previously attributed only to humans, a study shows. The study published in the journal PLOS biology found the chestnut-crowned babbler was ...

People have the remarkable ability to generate meaning out of meaningless sounds by arranging them in a, well, meaningful way. That’s how we form words. We used to think that this was a uniquely human ...

Babbler birds are actually communicating much like humans when they make their distinctive sounds, new research reveals. The calls are not merely sounds but convey specific meanings, investigators ...

Move over, parrots. Here’s another bird with some impressive “language” skills: The chestnut-crowned babbler. Scientists studying the social birds have discovered that they can rearrange meaningless ...

A bird can communicate in a similar way to how humans use language, scientists have discovered. A study of the chestnut-crowned babbler bird from Australia revealed a method of communicating that has ...