Birds combined calls more than 11 million years ago

Abstract Multiple members of the tit and chickadee (= Parid) family combine two classes of calls, F and D, in a rigid order FD. In Japanese tits, FD has been argued on the basis of multiple experiments to involve syntax and non-trivial compositionality. How ancient are these call combinations? We sh...

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Published in:Scientific Reports
Main Authors: Ambre Salis, Robin J. Ryder, Axel Molina, Philippe Schlenker, Emmanuel Chemla
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Subjects:
Animal communication
Combination
Evolution
Mobbing
Syntax
Ancestral signals
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-05497-w

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-05497-w

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