Mammals use their voices for a variety of interesting purposes, including intra-species communication, threat/display, courtship, navigation, and hunting. Among mammal species, some vocal features ...

To the untrained listener, a bunch of babbling baboons may not sound like much. But sharp-eared experts have now found that our primate cousins can actually produce humanlike vowel sounds. The finding ...

The essential tones of human music are rooted in the physics of how our vocal cords produce speech, according to a study published Friday. Researchers at Duke University's Center for Cognitive ...