Plants and animals have evolved all sorts of ways to make themselves more appealing to potential mates—including colorful feet, flamboyant feathers, complex mating dances and sexual deception. Many ...

Photograph of three male zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis), whose mating calls were used as part of the study. Credit: Raina Fan. The bright colors of butterfly wings, the sweet aromas of flowers ...

Lovebirds are unusual not just because of their shameless PDA, but because they choose one mate for life. While more than 90 ...

Communication is something humans often think we have mastered. We use languages, gestures, facial expressions, and ...

Do humans share a sense of acoustic beauty with other animals? According to a new study, the answer may be yes. In a global citizen-science experiment, researchers show that humans tend to prefer many ...

Photograph of three male zebra finches (Taeniopygia castanotis). In this study, more than 4,000 human participants from around the world were presented with pairs of animal sounds from 16 different ...