Discover which species star in “The 12 Days of Christmas,” how they live, and whether they’d enjoy life as unusual holiday gifts.

Most, who Jeff Beck once dubbed a "popcorn producer," was looking for an easily digestible hit song. The Animals wanted something different. "Everybody's going to try to out-rock Chuck," Animals ...

The talking-animals song is a hallmark of many a Disney movie, so including one in a celebration of the company’s classic animated canon is pretty much a no-brainer. The critters of the new movie ...

Around the animal kingdom, several nonavians also produce sounds that are sometimes discussed using a musical vocabulary. Whale songs echo through the ocean for hundreds of miles, while frogs and ...

Four winters of audio recordings of bowhead whales singing under the ice off Greenland show a surprise variety in this animal's repertoire. Bowhead whales' vocalization patterns are very different ...