... PhysOrg.com) -- To many people, bird song can herald the coming of spring, reveal what kind ... Vehrencamp, Cornell professor of neurobiology and behavior, bird song is a code from which to glean insights into avian ...
... Museum of Natural Science, has found a link between alterations in bird songs and the rapid change in the surrounding habitat ... that in places where plant growth had increased, bird songs were slowing down. "This is likely due ...
... in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has reproduced many of the characteristics of real bird song with a simple physical model made ... control but reproduces some non-trivial aspects of bird song," says L Mahadevan, a professor at Harvard ...
... by whistling through their fingers or by carving wooden bird calls. Now a team of physicists at Harvard ... in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has reproduced many of the characteristics of real bird song with a simple physical model made ...
EAST LANSING, Mich., Dec. 7 (UPI) -- Backyard birdwatchers and professional ornithologists alike have a new resource in a U.S. database of bird songs, pictures and information, researchers say.
A simple rubber device that replicates complex bird-songs is developed by a team of US researchers.
... and sex of individuals, and their genetic diversity. Now new research, the first of its kind suggests bird song could also be important ...
... habitat, just because they had heard our recorded bird songs there the previous year," Betts said. "We were actually ... ." It's been understood for some time, he said, that birds make various noises and songs for specific reasons, such as to defend ...
... of Antwerp and at Eötvös University, Budapest used bird song as a model to investigate whether behavioural ... taking is at work in a predator-prey context). Bird song has a prominent and well-established role ...
... love. Behavioural norms that we perceive as sexually attractive are not culturally or evolutionarily arbitrary. Researchers used bird song as a model to investigate whether behavioral ...
Toadfish grunts, bird songs, and human speech are all controlled by a common brain circuit that first appeared in animals hundreds of millions of years ago, a new paper says.
Harmonious bird songs may sound pleasant to people, but a new study has found that at least some birds fight by singing, using melodic tweets to defend their relationships and territories.
... College biology professor Heather Williams, the songs birds sing are more than a pleasant part of a spring day. They are a window into how communication works in the natural world ...
Lost tapes reveal evolution of bird song
... factors that drive the evolution of mating signals in birds. Derryberry says she first noticed ... ones the kids are singing today. To evaluate how much the songs have changed—and what might be driving ...
