Zebra finches don’t just mimic sounds—they understand them, revealing surprising insights into animal communication and ...

In studying animal communication, it’s hard to know whether animals react instinctively to the vocalizations of others or actually understand the meaning. In a recent UC Berkeley study, researchers ...

Their first vocalizations help young zebra finch males to memorize the songs of adults. When babies learn to talk or birds learn to sing, the same principle applies: listen and then imitate. This is ...

Finches have been associated with evolution since the time of Darwin. In a new development researchers have successfully decoded the compete genetic make up of the zebra finch commonly known as the ...

BOSTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) --Neuroscientists at MIT have detailed the song-learning process by studying the brains of zebra finches, a small Australian songbird. In the first two weeks of life, young birds ...

The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a small songbird from the perching-bird order (Passeriformes) that is used as a model organism for the study of subjects including song production, evolution, ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Songs from 402 Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata castanotis) were sampled in order to describe the structure of the song phrase and the ...

The chromosomes of finches born from older fathers have traits associated with a shorter life expectancy than the finches conceived by younger dads, revealed a new study published online in the ...