Parrots remain the most well-known talkers in the bird world. Still, they’re not alone. A handful of other species can copy words and everyday sounds with surprising realism, sometimes matching ...
WASHINGTON, D.C., November 21, 2010 -- For centuries, hunters have imitated their avian prey by whistling through their fingers or by carving wooden bird calls. Now a team of physicists at Harvard ...
TL;DR: Musician and acoustic scientist Benn Jordan achieved a potential world first by encoding data onto a live European starling. Using a spectral synthesizer, he transformed an image into sound, ...