The vocal sounds of humans -- laughing, crying, and the babbling of babies -- have the same rhythmic quality as the sounds made by many mammals, songbirds, and even some species of fish. Researchers ...

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1977), pp. 291-302 (12 pages) 1. Attenuation of white noise and pure tones from 350 Hz to 10 kHz was measured at three secondary forest sites in ...

There are many things that set humans apart from other animals, but few of them are as notable as our ability to communicate. Sure, most animals are able to make noises, and many of them can send ...

Vocal communication has an important role in the everyday lives of humans and many other animal species. When we speak, the sound of our voice is both delivered to an intended listener and conducted ...

There have been a few really fascinating studies of vocalization in cattle over the years; they are social herd animals who need to communicate with each other, and they prefer to do so vocally. New ...

A new study has focused on how babies start speaking, and how 9 to 13-month-old babies tackle the shift from early babbling to the use of combinations of gestures and speech. Asier Romero-Andonegi, ...

Despite a dramatic rise in whale deaths in the Bay Area — with 2025 already surpassing any year in the past-quarter century — acoustic monitoring of marine mammals in and around the ...

We’re all familiar with a raspy hen yelp and a thundering tom gobble. But wild hens and gobblers make many turkey sounds beyond these two vocalizations. Each of these sounds express specific meanings.

Girls have long been thought to have a language advantage over boys as infants. But new research finds that boys make more vocalization sounds than girls do in the early months of life. These squeals, ...

In biblical scholarship there still prevails a strong tendency to regard the vocalization of the Bible as superfluous and to consider the vocalization of those forms which phonologically or ...