A tiny bird in Australia has been spotted using fake hawk alarm calls to scare threats away from their nests to protect their babies, shedding more light on deceptive sounds used by animals to ...

Named for their "chick-a-dee-dee-dee" call, the 13-centimetre-long birds live in deciduous forests throughout North America. Scientists knew the birds' calls were complex.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Prairie dogs are the Paul Reveres of the Great Plains: They bark to alert neighbors to the presence of predators, with separate calls for dangers coming by land or by air ...

A tiny bird in Australia has been spotted using fake hawk alarm calls to scare threats away from their nests to protect their babies, shedding more light on deceptive sounds used by animals to defend ...

To test just how alert the birds were to prairie dog chatter, researchers created a fake predator by strapping a taxidermied badger onto a small remote-controlled vehicle.