Wolf howls are a form of animal communication that Arik and colleagues have studied in great detail. They use algorithms to analyse the different types of howls and their meaning. Human speech is ...

Charles Darwin, when musing about the evolution of emotion, pointed out the similarities in how animals mouth off ... in the sounds of species as different as frogs and pandas, the researchers ...

By Elizabeth Preston Lurking among the underwater plants in Australia’s ponds and streams is a fish called the mouth almighty ... of apparently monogamous animals. “Stories such as this ...

Show more Michael hears from zoologist Arik Kershenbaum about the latest research on how and why different types of animals communicate ... Subscribe to the Word of Mouth podcast and never ...