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Baby birds babble just like human babies learning to talk (AP)

AP - The happy babbling that entertains parents as their babies try to mimic speech turns out to have a parallel in the animal world. Baby birds babble away before mastering their adult song, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.

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Erica May 02, 2008

This is pretty cool! Not a surprise that animals would learn languages like humans. I wonder if there might be applications for studying how animals learn languages to help people with aphasia or other linguistic difficulties down the road.