NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J., Aug. 11 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have measured changes in birds' brain cells and discovered the cells change as the birds are exposed to new sounds.
Zebra finches use a different part of the brain for random babbling than the one used to create adult calls, a find that could give new insight into how human infants learn to talk, a new study says.
... birds were exposed to 16 hours of light a day in long-day conditions, castrated and implanted ... prevented cell death in the HVC on the side of birds' brain that received these chemicals while this region ...
... (Reuters) - Magpies can recognize themselves in a mirror, highlighting the mental skills of some birds and confounding the notion that self-awareness is the exclusive preserve of humans and a few ...
... -access journal PLoS ONE on October 1, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have demonstrated that this can be true. When male birds sang to attract females, specific "reward" ...
A migrating bird rests half of its brain while the other half remains alert
... Cretaceous--Tertiary mass extinction 65 million years ago may have wiped out the dinosaurs, but those that survived -- the ancestors of today's birds -- may have done so because of their bird brains.
Superior brainpower could be why birds survived the mass extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, suggests a new study of fossil bird brains.
... mockingbirds recognize and remember people whom the birds perceive as threatening their nests. If the white-and-grey ... nesting season.
It didn't take a bird's eye view to spot the resulting pattern, ...
... with GPS.
The researchers got some baseline information by recording the brain activity of birds in the lab and of birds flying over the relatively featureless open sea. They then followed pigeons ...
CHAMPAIGN, Ill., July 7 (UPI) -- U.S. biologists say they've discovered unusual gene activity in the brains of zebra finches occurs after the birds hear a new song from another bird.
... neurons in the HVC begin dying within four days hours after the steroid hormone testosterone is withdrawn from the bird's brains. Thousands of neurons died over this time.
In the new work, the UW ...
Male bowerbirds that show superior intelligence are more sexually attractive to female birds, scientists discover.
Talk about your bird brains: A zebra finch's brain changes dramatically after hearing a new song, and even 24 hours later, the bird's still processing the information.
When the finches were exposed ...
