Recently in the headlines

• SD: Bird song-sharing like vocal sparring
• arXiv: The secret foraging behavior of bees
• BBC: Millie the mandril develops own sign language (video)
• SciAm: A signal for solitude: Monkeys create their own rudimentary language sign
• SD: Chinese-English bilinguals are 'automatic' translators
• Perspectives on Psychological Science: Mirror neuron forum
• Science: Human voice recognition depends on language ability
• Nature: What birds have to say about language

I'm going to try to publish news roundup posts more frequently in the future (~biweekly) so stories reach you in a more timely fashion. If there is interest in putting individual news items on twitter, I would be happy to do that as well.