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WARSAW — Come swing your partner when the Arts Council for Wyoming County hosts a square dancing celebrating a new caller with Kelly’s Old Timers.

Behavioral scientists found a relationship between styles of bird learning and problem solving.

This program supports access to work-based learning opportunities, so students can develop employability skills and make informed career choices.

More than 70 local school students from across Gippsland recently took part in a two-day health camp, facilitated by industry professionals.

Aim: Conservation has recently shifted to include behavioural or cultural diversity, adding substantial value to conservation efforts. Habitat loss and fragmentation can deplete diversity in learnt behaviours such as bird song by reducing the availability of song tutors, yet these impacts are poorly understood. Vocal mimicry may be particularly sensitive to habitat loss and fragmentation through the resulting reduction in both heterospecific models and conspecific tutors. Here we examine the rel...

Despite much research on mimicry, little is known about the ecology of dynamic mimetic signals involving mimicry of multiple species. Some of the most conspicuous examples of phenotypically plastic mimicry are produced by oscine passerines, where vocal production learning enables some species to mimic multiple models and flexibly adjust what they mimic and when. While singing from a perch, male superb lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) accurately imitate multiple songs and calls of over 20 speci...

Mimicry has long been a focus of research, but little is known about how and why many species of bird incorporate imitations of heterospecific sounds into their vocal displays. Crucial to understanding mimetic song is determining what sounds are mimicked and in what contexts such mimicry is produced. The superb lyrebird, Menura novaehollandiae, is a large oscine passerine with a lek-like mating system. Both sexes are accurate and versatile vocal mimics of the vocalizations of other species, but ...

J-PAL North America announces partnerships with five new partners to develop rigorous evaluations of policies and programs related to environment, education, economic security, and housing stability.

The internet exploded after a musk duck was recorded saying “you bloody fool” , and a lyrebird cried like a human baby. So what’s the fuss all about?

'Red tourism' is now one of the hottest travel trends in China, with tourists flocking to sites significant to the Communist Party's history. But critics say these sites present a doctored version of history.