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Male songbirds maintain attractiveness by daily vocal workouts, crucial for wooing mates. Research reveals a 50% muscle decline within a week of silence.

A new study shows the creaky voice effect some people love to hate is important for echolocation in the deep ocean.

A distinct structure in the nasal passages helps toothed whales produce powerful clicks and other lower-frequency sounds.

One of Kim Kardashian's trademarks is her vocal fry, a creaky voice affectation that studies have suggested is deeply polarizing for humans.

New research suggests that vocal fry among toothed whales is what gives them the ability to echolocate, hunting down their prey with the loudest sounds produced by any animal on the planet.

New research suggests that vocal fry among toothed whales is what gives them the ability to echolocate, hunting down their prey with the loudest sounds produced by any animal on the planet.

Dolphins and other toothed whales are large-brained top predators that captivate our imagination; they are extremely social, they cooperate and can hunt prey down to 2 km deep in complete darkness with echolocation.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Dolphins, porpoises, killer whales, sperm whales and other toothed whales produce an array of sounds - to find prey employing a sonar-like system called echolocation and to communicate with other members of their species.

Scientists have found the creatures use vocal fry, the low tone of drawn-out syllables commonly employed by American celebrities

Toothed whales produce a low-pitch ‘vocal fry’ using powerful air blasts from their blowholes, helping them locate food in deep water where the pressure collapses their lungs