Can talking birds speak languages other than English? The answer is a resounding 'yes', highlighted in this video where a Common Hill Myna is seen chatting in Japanese. Called Abe Chan, the bird has ...

Where it lives: Steppes and meadows in Asia, notably China, India, Japan, Korea and Russia. It's also found in Africa and parts of Europe. Some populations are migratory. What it eats: Seeds of ...

Birds never cease to amaze observers with their versatile intelligence. Flying birds experience time and space in radically different ways than humans; urban birds like pigeons adapted with remarkable ...

Whether it's a wave or a thumbs up, in the animal kingdom it's usually only humans that perform wordless gestures to communicate. But new research from the University of Tokyo reveals that a clever ...

As a child, I'd creep down the basement stairs and watch him: hunched over a table, a single lamp lighting his work. First he'd carve a walnut-sized body out of wood. Then he'd take a tiny brush and ...