Recent research has uncovered more nuances in the hyrax song, including its variations among different functions, contexts, and reception. Though birds are well-known for their singing, more complex ...

If popular karaoke bars and the long audition lines for American Idol demonstrate anything, it's that people like to express themselves through song — and the bigger the audience, the better. Now ...

Foundations of complex language have been found in colonies of unusual furry animals called hyraxes. Hyraxes, which resemble rodents but are more closely related to elephants or manatees, often cluck, ...

The rock hyrax doesn’t look like much, but it just joined an elite group of animals who display the rudiments of language. The lengthy songs these social mammals sing to each other show evidence of ...

The raucous calls of tree hyraxes -- small, herbivorous mammals -- reverberate through the night in the forests of West and Central Africa, but their sound differs depending on the location. Tree ...

Hyraxes are medium-sized, plant-eating mammals with soft, gray-brown or yellowish fur that look like a robust, oversized guinea pig or a rabbit with rounded ears and no tail. Native to Africa and the ...