Australian Chestnut-Crowned Babbler May Not Be Babbling After All

Kendall Costello
Thu, 06 Aug 2015 12:18:31 -0700

To the novice listener, the Australian Chestnut-crowned babbler's sweet melodies may sound like any other birdsong. However, to ornithologists it is a series of sounds which when combined, forms a unique bird-like vocalization or what we refer to as language. The discovery is exciting because the tiny birds are the first nonhuman species known to communicate using language.