David Gruber began his almost impossibly varied career studying bluestriped grunt fish off the coast of Belize. He was an undergraduate, and his job was to track the fish at night. He navigated by the ...

After poring over recordings from sperm whales in the Caribbean, UC Berkeley linguist Gasper Begus had an unlikely breakthrough. According to a new study from Begus and his colleagues with Project ...

The idea of a device that decodes animal sounds — turning squeaks, clicks and meows into human language — has been a staple of science fiction for decades, popping up in everything from Pixar’s Up to ...

In an unprecedented scientific feat, researchers have bridged the gap between humans and humpback whales, achieving a 20-minute interaction that could reshape our understanding of animal intelligence.

Forget the cartoon dog collars and sci-fi translators. The real science of understanding animal communication is advancing faster than most people realize, and AI is the driving force behind the shift ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. According to a recent report from Colombia One, researchers are banding together to create an AI that facilitates animal-to-human translation for the first ...

The song is not random noise A single humpback whale singing in the North Pacific can produce a sound sequence lasting up to ...

Deep in the rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Mélissa Berthet found bonobos doing something thought to be uniquely human. How to detect consciousness in people, animals and maybe ...