Brain activity in vocalizing budgerigar parrots showed a pattern that harkened to those found in the brains of people.

"Incredibly flexible" spoken language is produced through delicate patterns in the human brain, the researchers say. To determine whether the patterns are unique to humans, the research team performed ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...

Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...

The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for ...

Bullfrogs usually produce low sounds, but on rare occasions they can actually scream. Why do bullfrogs scream? And how do ...