A sound defense: Noisy pupae puff away potential predators

Insect pupae hiss like snakes for defense. A Kobe University team now reveals the mechanisms, opening the door to further ...
The Nature Network on MSN

The eerie song of the nightjar, and the ancient myths it inspired

The nightjar has one of the strangest voices in British wildlife, and people have been trying to explain it for […] ...
Good News Network

New Underwater Tool Lets Ecologists ID Fish From Their Sounds–46 Species So Far (LISTEN to 5 of Them)

The FishEye Collaborative combined underwater sound recordings with a 360° camera to identify the sounds made by individual ...

The fossil bird that choked to death on rocks, and no one knows why

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal's body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

Meet the Tiny Bat That Hunts Like a Lion

In Panama’s forests, researchers discovered that tiny fringe-lipped bats hunt with the patience and precision of big cats.
University of California

Finch chirps are more than mindless chatter. They actually convey meaning.

A UC Berkeley study shows that when zebra finches hear the call of another zebra finch, they have a mental representation of ...
IFLScience

A Strange New Species Of Bird Has Worrying Similarities To The Doomed Dodo

The researchers have commented on how the behaviour of the new species has a striking resemblance to the dodo. The ...
IEEE

FCLS: A lightweight model based on sound feature fusion for bird classification

Abstract: By automatically detecting and classifying bird sounds, relevant researchers can learn ecological information about bird distribution, migration patterns, and habitat preferences. This paper ...