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Skylarks don’t talk to strangers…or wanderers

Christine Buckley Aug 28, 2009 One Comment

Bird songs are among the most complex and fascinating forms of animal communication. Tiny differences in bird songs can often result in “dialects”, where populations of the same species have slightly different variations on the same songs. In a study out today in Naturwissenschaften, ornithologists have taken it a step further. Some skylarks can not [...]

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