Scientists have found a trigger for social learning in wild animals. An experiment on great tits has pinpointed a single factor --immigration -- that can cause birds to pay close attention to others, ...

Amanda Tokuyama (left), the GIS & Field Data Manager for the Urban Ecology Center, shows the young campers where the band will go on the Gray catbird's leg, while Brittany Peters (right), community ...

Each spring, warblers, grosbeaks and tanagers arrive in Chattanooga, with their brightest colors and cheeriest songs, in search of mates. When it comes to nature's great events, spring migration ...

Siblings are special. Be they protector or tormentor, friend or foe, the relationship between siblings is like no other. They witness each other’s childhoods — sharing parents, history, secrets and ...

A community science initiative along the West Coast is using volunteer observations to study the effect of wildfire smoke on birds. Last summer, Carrie Brown-Kornarens spent 10 minutes every week ...

Language learning becomes more challenging for people as we age. Children learn languages easily, but this facility begins to decline when we reach our twenties and beyond. Why? To better understand ...

Many animals that live in groups learn from one another, but few wild animals have opened a window into understanding animal social learning, like a single bird species: the great tits. Great tits ...