A few small rodents like rats and mice whistle like this, but horses are the first known large mammal to have a knack for it.
We are in sound overload, even when we are not consciously aware of it. Those with misophonia may be casualties of the overwhelming environment.
The ability to make two distinct sounds at once is shared with human beat boxers and throat singers. The horse whinny, or neigh, has been a familiar sound at least since the animal was domesticated, ...
New Zealand conservationists have been fighting for years to keep the kakapo, the world’s only flightless parrot, from disappearing, with intensive conservation efforts.
Did you know that not all birds can sing? Some birds are natural vocal learners, while others merely make calls rather than ...
A horse's whinny is an unusually distinctive mix of sounds including both high and low frequencies, a new study in Current Biology shows.
To begin deciphering the subtleties of wild Amazon Parrot duetting, Professor Dahlin and collaborators conducted more than three years of field work to record the warble duets sung by mated pairs of ...
Early morning, Jan. 25, 2026. I get up, put coffee on and go back to bed, burying myself deep into the warmth beneath the quilt. I lay on my back, counting the moments before the beep beep beep of the ...
It is in this cold, luminous world that I met a bird that textbooks describe plainly, but nature reveals poetically: the female Nilchey Lal-Girdi, Plumbeous Redstart (Phoenicurus fuliginosus) ...