Brains sell magazines, mathematical linguistics sells caffeine. That basically summarizes coverage of a recent study on songbirds' "artificial grammar system". More on that later. First, a summary of ...

Crows are some of the smartest creatures in the animal kingdom. They are capable of making rule-guided decisions and of creating and using tools. They also appear to show an innate sense of what ...

Humans aren't alone in being able to grasp early grammatical concepts, say biologists who found songbirds can as well. European starlings were trained to tell the difference between a regular ...

In cognitive tests for recognizing certain types of patterns, crows outperformed monkeys. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Crows ...

The cover for Daniel Everett's Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle (Profile Books). | Via Flickr CC BY Few scientific disagreements lead to public controversy. But ...

Male European starlings (Sturnus vulgaris) constantly add new sounds to their repertoires, picking up nearly any auditory object they can find, including the sounds of car alarms, squeaky doors, human ...