Communication between species has a long and wishful history, beginning with myths, legends, and stories like those of King Solomon and Doctor Dolittle. In the past century, that history has blossomed ...

Nonhuman animals (animals) are constantly "talking" with one another using sounds, smells, visual signals, and various combinations thereof. In his fascinating new book titled Why Animals Talk: The ...

If you’ve played Where Winds Meet, you may have spotted animals everywhere — cats, dogs, birds — but wondered if you could actually talk to them. That uncertainty can make you skip interacting with ...

In Sweden, there used to be a widespread belief that animals could talk on Christmas Eve. My Swedish mother read me stories about this as a child, and it is true. Apparently throughout Scandinavia, ...

Josh McGirk was skeptical about animal communicators. The south Denver resident loved his four-legged family members and was at his wits’ end after adopting a new cat, Amelie, who his two other cats ...

Anna Jon-And receives funding from from the Swedish Research Council and has received funding from Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. Johan Lind has received funding from the Swedish Research ...

As we’ve done 12 times prior—spanning just over four years–today’s program involved setting aside the usual “Talking Animals” format in order to present the show-length feature, “Ask The Trainer.” In ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — In a St. Petersburg house, there is a living room filled with play toys belonging to a precocious preschooler, named Apollo. The four-year-old African Grey parrot is a Guinness ...

As a dog parent, I have often pondered how much easier life would be if canines could speak. I have even gone so far as to give my pets dialogue when recalling funny stories about them. That is why I ...

"Compositionality, in a nutshell: It's the fact that we can combine meaningful units into larger structures whose meaning is derived from the meaning of the units," Mélissa Berthet, a researcher in ...