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Birds make an incredible variety of sounds, from simple chirps to complex songs, but whether they actually understand each other the way we understand language is more complicated than you’d think.

A new study has confirmed the belief that birdsongs evolve as a result of age, population dynamics and movement of the birds. Researchers gathered thousands of hours of audio of great tits (Parus ...

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This study was supported by a student grant from the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour and a doctoral scholarship from the University of Auckland. Kristal Cain does not work for, ...