Advancements in AI may soon allow humans to talk with animals, but some groups claim the research could be violating the animals’ right to privacy. Machine learning models are paving the way to ...

Julie Elie has spent a lot of time listening to zebra finches. These chatty little birds are a popular animal model for studying communication, but most research focuses on the males' complicated ...

Artificial intelligence tools are not just used as factory workers anymore. AI is helping scientists get closer to understanding how animals communicate. Researchers are using AI to study thousands of ...

The idea of a device that decodes animal sounds — turning squeaks, clicks and meows into human language — has been a staple of science fiction for decades, popping up in everything from Pixar’s Up to ...

In 2023, researchers did something that sounds like it belongs in a Pixar movie: they decoded a humpback whale’s “hello” and used it to hold a brief back-and-forth exchange with a whale off the coast ...