Scientists describe "amazing feeling" to look into the face of an animal that so few people knew existed.

Welcome to the International Bioacoustics Society. Join our global community studying biological sounds, animal communication, and eco-acoustics.

Wildlife conservation has traditionally focused on the maintenance of population size, preserving genetic diversity and protecting habitats, with success typically measured through stable or increasi...

Are bonobos just gal pals? We outline historical interpretations of same-sex sexual behavior in bonobos and propose ways of queering this research that expand the study of both same-sex and mixed-sex....

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Human infants receive more directed communication than other great ape infants, indicating that it evolved alongside language.

The way that human adults talk to young children is unique among primates, a new study found. That might be one secret to our species’ grasp of language.

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Urbanization is hypothesized to create a myriad of cognitive challenges for animals because it creates novel environmental conditions in evolutionary terms. The consensus is that these novel urban cha...

A new study finds that scientific papers authored by women are cited less often in patented inventions than those by men. Here's the reason and why it matters.

Compositionality, the capacity to combine meaningful elements into larger meaningful structures, is a hallmark of human language. Compositionality can be trivial (the combination’s meaning is the sum ...