How Scientists Started to Decode Birdsong
Language is said to make us human. What if birds talk, too?
October 14, 2024
“Social birds . . . are constantly chatting to each other,” Mike Webster, an animal-communication expert at Cornell, says. “What in the hell are they saying?”
Illustration by Jared Nangle
Published in the print edition of the October 21, 2024, issue, with the headline “Pecking Order.”
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