Even so, nature resonates with distinct sounds during the cold season. Winter, in fact, is a good time to keep your ears ...

Despite a dramatic rise in whale deaths in the Bay Area — with 2025 already surpassing any year in the past-quarter century — acoustic monitoring of marine mammals in and around the ...

Traffic Lab is a Seattle Times project that digs into the region’s transportation issues to explore the policies and politics that determine how we get around and how billions of dollars in public ...

European starlings were the best at imitating R2-D2's multphonic sounds because they can control both sides of both sides of the syrinx independently, the researchers say. Pexels Birds have shown the ...

It may sound like a simple - and simply dull - statement of fact, the kind of thing that people refer to as a 'passing comment' or deploy as 'filler' to fix a dreaded awkward silence. But, while it ...

When scientists played R2-D2’s famous bleeps and whistles for a group of birds, they weren’t expecting a concert — but that’s exactly what they got. Researchers from the University of Amsterdam and ...

The relationship between sounds in words and their meaning is thought to be mostly arbitrary. Some linguists and behavioural ecologists, however, argue that the instinctive vocal responses that humans ...

William Feeney receives funding from the Spanish National Research Council. He has previously received funding from the Queensland Government, Hermon Slade Foundation, Seaworld Research and Rescue ...

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Abstract: The Smart Bird Repellent System utilizing IoT technology is designed to prevent crop damage caused by birds. The system incorporates an IoT-based framework that efficiently deters birds from ...