If you have ever held a tiny kitten, it is hard to believe that the soft rumble you feel starts just days after birth. Kittens are born blind and deaf, yet they begin purring almost immediately.

A horse’s whinny can sound like two calls at once. One part sits low and rough, like a familiar mammal voice. Another rides high, almost piercing, and it does not seem to fit a 500-kilogram animal.

In the movie Hoppers, scientists “hop” human consciousness into animal-like robots to talk to other species. We asked the ...

Genetics may have an answer. Are orange cats really the goofiest? Genetics may have an answer. Dogs. Bedbugs. Corn. They all have this one thing in common. Dogs. Bedbugs. Corn. They all have this one ...

Great tit chicks, for example, stop begging in response to a parent’s alarm call. And a study of blackcaps found that under very high predation pressure chicks completely refrain from chirping until ...