There's an old phrase popularized by Dr. Theodore Woodward from the University of Maryland in the 1940s that says, "if you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras." In Rutherford County, the sound of ...

Q: At family music gatherings, my brother-in-law would play and sing a cowboy folk song he called “The Zebra Dun.” I have never heard a recording of the song. Can you tell me if the song was ever ...

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You know how that guy at the karaoke bar singing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” sounds a little off after he’s had a few drinks? The same goes for buzzed birds, according to a team led by ...

Simon Griffith receives funding from The Australian Research Council, and this work was supported by a grant to Marc Naguib from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Hugo Loning ...