Like humans, zebra finches can recognize songs by their rhythmic pattern, even when the tempo is changed.
Similar to Human Babies, This Bat Species Learns to Communicate Through Babbling and Vocal Imitation
Just like human babies, the young Saccopteryx bilineata bat babbles as part of its initial language learning phase.
Autistic children and adults are better at holding and imitating relative pitch than they are with absolute pitch across both speech and song.
Researchers have identified structural differences in parrot brains which could explain why they are able to imitate sounds and human speech so well.