Birds use language like humans, joining calls together to form sentences

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Birds use language like humans, joining calls together to form sentences
Birds form complex sentences by joining calls together to create new meanings, scientists have found

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sc...joining-calls-together-to-form-sentences.html

Birds use language like humans, joining specific ‘chirrups’ together to form complex sentences – the first creature that has ever been shown to do so.

Scientists have known for some time that animals use songs and calls to signal danger or seek out a mate.

But they did not think birds were intelligent enough to string those calls together to generate new meanings, in the same way that humans can.
 
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