Birds of A Feather Spell Together

Well, I suppose we shouldn't be surprised, but apparently, birds have a knack for pronouns. According to Tim Gentner in Thursday's journal Nature, "Starlings learned to differentiate between a regular birdsong 'sentence' and one containing a clause or another sentence of warbling."

I guess this adds a whole new dimension to the idiom "bird brain".

To read the full article, go to The Globe and Mail and do a search for Tim Gentner in Science.