Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This photo provided by Jessica McLachlan shows a fairy-wren. Scientists have discovered that birds can learn to recognize alarm ...

In our quest to find what makes humans unique, we often compare ourselves with our closest relatives: the great apes. But when it comes to understanding the quintessentially human capacity for ...

Birdsong is more than just mimicry. Birds learn to sing through complex brain processes similar to human speech learning.

DURHAM, N.C. -- Neurobiologists have discovered that a nearly identical version of a gene whose mutation produces an inherited language deficit in humans is a key component of the song-learning ...

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