You can add marmoset monkeys to the list of species that use “names.” But whether animals have anything more to say remains unknown. Do animals have names? According to the poet T.S. Eliot, cats have ...

Wild elephants seem to address each other using distinctive, rumbling sounds that could be akin to individual names. That's according to a provocative new study in the journal Nature Ecology & ...

Nature often sounds serious when it’s presented in documentaries, but the names don’t always match that tone. Once you start noticing them, some animal names feel oddly funny or unexpected. These ...

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Charles Darwin theorized that a sound, smell or color that's attractive to one species can be preferred by others too. A new study finds humans and animals do share preferences for certain sounds.

Did you know that animal sounds can be crucial to your child’s early speech and language development? Speech refers to the production of sounds that transform into words through the physical act of ...