London, Nov 12: While it has been known that some species of birds use the alarm calls of other bird species to flee danger, how they develop this ability has been unknown. Now, a team of Australian researchers has found that birds develop this multilingual ability by learning the alarm calls of other birds on the job.
In the study, associate Professor Robert Magrath and colleagues of the School of Botany and Zoology at the Australian National University in Canberra found that fairy-wrens have the ability to learn the alarm calls of other species, giving them the edge when it comes to escaping predators.
For the study, the researchers played recordings of calls of different bird species to fairy-wrens (Malurus cyaneus) and monitored their response.
The Sensex recovered its early losses and trying to make headway towards positive terrain. 
Peshawar, Nov 12: Pakistan’s unit of the Taliban, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has said that a NWFP minister was the prime target of yesterday’s suicide attack at Peshawar sports stadium. But, fortunately, the minister survived, though two of his guards were killed in the attack.
Bangkok - Embattled Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat was scheduled to depart Bangkok for India Wednesday to attend a summit of the Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC), foreign ministry sources confirmed.
Islamabad, Nov 12 : The inclusion of two new ministers, who in the past faced charges of exhibiting brutal attitude towards women, has drawn huge criticism in Pakistani political circles. The critics say that they would not have been inducted into the cabinet, had slain PPP chairperson and former premier Benazir Bhutto been alive and running the present day government.
Washington, November 12 : An Indian-origin researcher has found that the neck arteries of obese children and teenagers look more like those of 45-year-olds.
