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05/06/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Unique study concludes that migratory birds move away from diseases to raise their young

Swedish researchers have found that European migratory songbirds leave their warm but disease-laden homes in the tropics to raise their vulnerable young in the healthier environs of Europe. This way, according to an article on ScienceDaily, their species could make do with less robust but also less costly immune systems. The University of Lund researchers came across this discovery […]

04/10/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Study of songbirds provides insight on how we vocalize words

For years, we have gotten used to the idea that songbirds break into song just because. There’s no set pattern in those melodious notes that issue from their tiny beaks. Until a new study from the UT Southwestern’s Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute showed that a bird’s song can be changed to the syllable. The […]

11/05/2017 / By Russel Davis

Bats, like humans, decipher where others are from based on their regional “accent,” according to new study

An animal study has revealed that bats have regional dialects just like humans, and are able to decipher and mimic how other bats communicate. As part of the study, a team of researchers at the Tel Aviv University in Israel have caught pregnant female Egyptian fruit bats in central Israel. The female bats have been randomly assigned to three identical […]

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