From mimicking car alarms to weaving mossy decoys, birds are finding ingenious ways to survive in a human-dominated world. Some shift their songs higher to cut through traffic noise, while others ...

Insect pupae hiss like snakes for defense. A Kobe University team now reveals the mechanisms, opening the door to further studies involving predator reactions to defensive sounds. Just as you would ...

Wild black-tailed prairie dogs use alarm calls to warn one another of predators, and some grassland birds are listening in. Photo credit: Andrew Dreelin, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation ...

Ornithologist Katie LaBarbera arrives at the Coyote Creek Field Station in Alviso about 45 minutes before sunrise — peak time for bird activity. The early part of LaBarbera’s Sunday shift is ...