Elephants learn to imitate sounds that are not typical of their species, the first known example after humans of vocal learning in a non-primate terrestrial mammal. The discovery, reported in today's ...

Musk ducks in Australia are able to imitate sounds like a door slamming or a human cursing. Research on the animal’s ability to mimic sounds began in 1980. Songbirds, parrots and hummingbirds can also ...

ANTIBES, France -- In what they call a world first, researchers in Europe say they've taught an orca whale to successfully imitate a variety of sounds, including calls made by other animal species and ...