About this episode

The episode discusses how young magpies learn to communicate and what this reveals about language development in humans.

Young magpies learn their complex calls in much the same way that human toddlers learn sounds and words. We caught up with Dr Stephanie Mason from the University of Western Australia to talk about her research and what we can learn from it. Audio of the magpie calls generously provided by Dr Stephanie Mason. Study can be found at the link below: https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2025.1620 Support the show: https://buymeacoffee.com/tunefm See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Host: TuneFM - University of New England

Guest: Dr Stephanie Mason

Topics covered

• magpies
• language development
• animal communication
• research
• toddler learning

Keywords

• magpies
• language
• calls
• learning
• communication
• toddler
• research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: University of Western Australia

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