On Winged Victory, songwriter Willi Carlisle weaves between the absurd and the sentimental. NPR's Scott Simon speaks with ...

Becca Rowland’s quirky book “Bird Talk” helps readers identify bird calls by comparing them to everyday sounds like car ...

Why Do Some Animals Have ‘Accents’? Some animal experts theorize that certain species use accents to identify associates from untrusted strangers.

A new book aims to dissect the band’s creative output. Fleetwood Mac: All the Songs is penned by French journalists Olivier Roubin and Romuald Ollivier, and, as the name suggests, explores the ...

So “the idea that the sounds could be female communication is really exciting.” Who knows, maybe there could be a new track for Songs of the Humpback Whale: "Let's Get It On." ...

Another small book, A Short Philosophy of Birds —written by French ornithologist Philippe J. Dubois and Elise Rousseau, philosopher and author of several works on nature and animals—is a ...

We opened Talking Animals' doors in February 2023. Our store is the only bookstore in Grapevine, a massive tourism and travel hub housing DFW International Airport. Our mission is to be a place ...

The sounds that make up humpback whale songs follow some of the same statistical rules seen in human languages, which may be because of how they are learned By James Woodford ...

Many research groups have been working for years on algorithms to make sense of animal sounds. Project Ceti, for example, has been decoding the click trains of sperm whales and the songs of humpbacks.

But whether you love them or hate them, it’s undeniable that Christmas songs have a distinct quality that makes them sound so, well, Christmassy. Here’s why—and it’s not just about those ...

Scientists, Kershenbaum tells us, are learning a great deal by analyzing animal sounds — the howls of wolves, the whistles of dolphins, the songs of the hyrax, a small, furry mammal related to ...

In every case, as Kershenbaum illustrates, from the basic “I am here” of a songbird to the far more sophisticated utterances of a gibbon or a chimpanzee, the way information is communicated is a ...