Wendy Erb has spent countless hours studying orangutans in Borneo's tropical peatland forests in order to learn how male Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii) communicate. While doing so, she ...

Researchers are using large language models to decode the communication patterns of animals. Google DeepMind is building DolphinGemma, which studies dolphin sounds to understand them. The Earth ...

Pūkeko use sound elements to create calls and combine them to create complex call sequences in order to expand the range of ...

The Earth Sciences Project worked on research to explore whether machine learning can help categorize unlabeled calls of an endangered population of beluga whales. The Earth Species Project, a ...

AI is reshaping countless aspects of life. But so far, its applications have focused mostly on our singular species, Homo sapiens. What if humans used AI to better understand the nonhuman beings with ...

Have you ever wondered what chickens are talking about? Chickens are quite the communicators—their clucks, squawks, and purrs are not just random sounds but a complex language system. These sounds are ...

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Danielle MacKinnon has announced January 20, 2026, as the start date for her next Beginner Animal Communicator Course To view an enhanced version of this graphic, please visit: ...

We’ve been wondering what goes on inside the minds of animals since antiquity. Dr. Doolittle’s talent was far from novel when it was first published in 1920; Greco-Roman literature is lousy with ...

Koko the gorilla can comprehend roughly 2,000 words of spoken English. She doesn't have a vocal tract suitable for responding verbally, so the 40-year-old ape signs her thoughts using a modified form ...