Mice are still incapable of writing the complete works of Shakespeare, despite some being given a human "language gene".

Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, wondered whether people agree more with each other depending on the type of vocalization.

By listening carefully to recordings from 53 species—including turtles, lungfish, caecilians (a group of limbless amphibians), and New Zealand’s endemic, lizard-like tuatara—the team reached a ...

Here are the most common turkey sounds that gobblers, hens, jakes, and jennies make. While we can’t guarantee the exact meaning of every vocalization, these are the perceived interpretations based on ...