Nonhuman animals (animals) are constantly "talking" with one another using sounds, smells, visual signals, and various combinations thereof. In his fascinating new book titled Why Animals Talk: The ...

What would you say to your favourite animal if you could finally communicate with it? Researchers around the world are now closer than ever to making that possible. With advances in machine learning ...

Why do humans have language and other animals apparently don't? It's one of the most enduring questions in the study of mind and communication. Across all cultures, humans use richly expressive ...

“Moana 2″ premieres Nov. 27, and just like every other parent in America, I’ll be seated in the theater with my three children on opening night. But I’m apprehensive. I saw the trailer for the ...

"Compositionality, in a nutshell: It's the fact that we can combine meaningful units into larger structures whose meaning is derived from the meaning of the units," Mélissa Berthet, a researcher in ...

For some, talking to animals is the stuff of fairy tales, cartoons, or quirky movies starring Eddie Murphy. But for Val Heart, animal communication is a real and profound ability — one that can ...