Animals Have Grammar Too - A Little Birdie Told Us

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If you hear birds chirping in the trees, you might not think much of the different sounds you're hearing. But as it turns out, those tweets and chirps have a lot more in common with some of our complicated rules of grammar than you might have thought - not bad for bird brains!

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