Researchers have tracked muscle contractions in a bird's vocal tract, and reconstructed the song it was silently singing in its sleep. The resulting audio is a very specific call, allowing the team to ...
Scientists brought to life the silent, sleeping songs of two great kiskadees. Andrej Chudý via Flickr under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 DEED While birds are fast asleep, their brains remain active, firing off ...
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Where Do Birds Sleep at Night?
Where Do Sleeping Birds Spend the Night? Wild birds are good at finding shelter, according to birding experts Kenn and Kimberly Kaufman. Those that raise their young inside holes in trees, such as ...
Birds understand many sounds around them, from mates to alarms, and this hidden skill may hint at how human language first ...
The tiny lungs of the zebra finch belt out a loud and complex song, with rhythmic trills and fluttering squeaks no human voice could match. Maybe that’s why, according to a brain study by Chicago ...
Scientists have known for a while that many birds, including the buoyant frigate bird, can fly non-stop for weeks without having to rest on the ground. In fact, songbirds, swifts, seabirds and ...
The benefits of sleep are shared across the animal kingdom. Sleep saves energy by slowing down the metabolism and allows animals to avoid high-energy activities. For vertebrates, sleep is an essential ...
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