Birds string together meaningless sounds to make 'words'

ScienceDaily
Sep 9, 2019, 4:01 pm171 pts
A new study sheds light on whether animal vocalizations, like human words, are constructed from smaller building blocks. By analyzing calls of the Australian chestnut-crowned babbler, the researchers have for the first time identified the meaning-generating building blocks of a non-human communication system.

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