Baby birds babble away before mastering their adult song, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science. Michale S. Fee and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

Zebra finch youngsters learning to mimic adult songs lose ground but then recover whenever they sleep, according to an extensive study of recordings. After being awake several hours, the young males ...

The happy babbling that entertains parents as their babies try to mimic speech turns out to have a parallel in the animal world. Baby birds babble away before mastering their adult song, researchers ...

Baby birds are like baby humans on at least one score: they both babble. But as songbirds grow up, they make the switch from babbling to singing by flipping to a different brain circuit, new research ...

“We’ve discovered a previously unidentified component of vocal development,” Dina Lipkind, a psychologist at Hunter College in New York City, told the NYT. “What we’re showing is that babbling is not ...