Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

Mac app for jaw biomechanics of piranhas. Contribute to mwestneat/PiranhaLever development by creating an account on GitHub.

The middle ear of mammals is a major functional innovation, distinctive in that it is detached from the mandible and has a tympanic membrane suppor...

Bats use echolocation to get around, but it wasn’t clear how these creatures managed to navigate dense environments—until now

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Anatomy of the intracranial joint and the 2D semi-landmarks used to capture complexity in the intracranial joint. (a) The intracranial joint can be seen here (in red) between the parietal and occipit....

Nature Reviews Psychology - Birds demonstrate complex numerical abilities at levels similar to primates. In this Review, Regolin and colleagues describe the contribution of laboratory, field and...

In the field of vocal communication, research has mostly focussed on birds because of their vocal learning capacity and non-human primates due to their ...

MSc thesis projects in animal communication Across many human languages, there are several general principles in temporal patterning: most frequent words are shorter (Zipf’s law of brevity), larger c...

How birds retuned sour perception to eat fruits

Population genomics analyses reveal domestication in Bengalese finches shifts selection, favoring brain circuits for reward sensitivity over aggression and stress.