Do songbirds and humans have common biological hardwiring that shapes how they produce and perceive sounds?

A whale that was living close to a pod of bottlenose dolphins has learnt to speak their language, according to new research. Two months after the beluga whale was introduced into a new facility with the dolphins, scientists found that it began to imitate their whistles.

Et si le végétal envahissait la ville ? Et si on imaginait la vie sur terre dans 10 millions d’années ? Et si les animaux prenaient le contrôle de la toile ? Et si on mettait un caméléon sur un miroir

Language is a distinguishing characteristic of our species, and the course of its evolution is one of the hardest problems in science. It has long been generally considered that human speech requires a low larynx, and that the high larynx of nonhuman primates should preclude their producing the vowel systems universally found in human language. Examining the vocalizations through acoustic analyses, tongue anatomy, and modeling of acoustic potential, we found that baboons (Papio papio) produce sounds sharing the F1/F2 formant structure of the human [ɨ æ ɑ ɔ u] vowels, and that similarly with humans those vocalic qualities are organized as a system on two acoustic-anatomic axes. This confirms that hominoids can produce contrasting vowel qualities despite a high larynx. It suggests that spoken languages evolved from ancient articulatory skills already present in our last common ancestor with Cercopithecoidea, about 25 MYA.

Pendant 50 ans nous pensions que c’était impossible pour des singes d’émettre des voyelles. Et pourtant, les babouins sont capables de prononcer des sons comparables aux cinq voyelles humaines. Cette découverte a été mise en évidence par des chercheurs du Gipsa-Lab (CNRS/Grenoble INP/Université de Grenoble Alpes), du Laboratoire de psychologie cognitive (CNRS/AMU) et du Laboratoire d’anatomie de …

New research shows that ravens can plan ahead for different types of events, and even resist the urge to take an immediate reward in favor of getting a better one in the future. These capacities are often considered the exclusive domain of humans and great apes, so their presence in birds comes as a surprise.

Ce singe brésilien dispose de la grammaire la plus élaborée découvert jusqu’ici dans le monde non humain.

Aujourd'hui, nous reviendrons sur la place des animaux dans la société et notamment pendant la révolution.

We're fast approaching the point, says Con Slobodchikoff, when computers will help to mediate our communications with animals.

Software has performed the first real-time translation of a dolphin whistle – and better data tools are giving fresh insights into primate communication too

Animal vocal communication is often diverse and structured. Yet, the information concealed in animal vocalizations remains elusive. Several studies have shown that animal calls convey information about their emitter and the context.

Mathematical models offer new insights into animal vocal sequences, but evolution of language remains a mystery

In a step towards understanding the origins of human speech, researchers have worked out a way to understand the meaning of bat calls

Vinciane Despret, philosophe et éthologue, raconte aux enfants des histoires sur le rapport des animaux à leur habitat et à leur identité. Pour comprendre qu’au-del&a

Les grands singes sont nos plus proches parents : gorilles, chimpanzés, orangs-outans, mais que connaissons-nous vraiment d’eux ? Quels ont été leurs rapports avec homo sapiens ?