Sitting atop a cliff in the Canary Islands, Antonio Márquez Navarro issued an invitation — “Come over here, we’re going to slaughter the pig”— without speaking a word: He whistled it. In the distance, ...

A man in Laruns, southwestern France, whistling as a form of speech. Like others in the Canary Islands and elsewhere, local people have learned to whistle their language to communicate across long ...

Tourists visiting La Gomera and El Hierro in the Canary Islands can often hear locals communicating over long distances by whistling — not a tune, but the Spanish language. “Good whistlers can ...

Sept. 21 (UPI) --Some 80 different human cultures use whistling to communicate across long distances. In a new paper, published Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, scientists argue these ...

If you’ve gone most of your life without learning how to whistle, you’re likely not alone — especially if you're a woman. “Historically, women were discouraged from whistling because it was considered ...

Whistled Turkish is processed equally by both sides of the brain, rather than asymmetrically. Boys in early adolescence seem to become interested in whistled Turkish, and learn it from adults, while ...