Individual zebra finches vary their immune response to balance the costs, depending on sex, age and the environment. When changing from nest-bound juveniles to adults, female immune responses matured ...
NEW YORK, Oct. 2 (UPI) -- Altering the DNA of a zebra finch could reveal the process of vocal learning in vertebrate brains, scientists at New York's Rockefeller University say.
Researchers have found that zebra finch males are much more likely than females to mate with other finch species, even though they can tell the difference.
... of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.
Early on, baby zebra finches produce a highly variable, babbling song. ... ,” Fee explains.
Past research has shown that the zebra finch has two distinct brain circuits ...
Songbirds such as zebra finches and European starlings can move their vocal cords a hundred times faster than a blink of the human eye, new research says.
... to discriminate and remember the songs of other birds of the same species.
In this study, adult zebra finches (which normally live in a single-species colony) were moved to a canary colony, and ...
... examined how a simple immune response varied at different life stages across the life-span of individual zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata), in a study published in the September ...
... Behavior Mechanisms Lab examined one specific social behavior, courtship singing of songbirds. In the zebra finch, an Australian songbird, males sing in two different situations. Most importantly, ...
... to the newly sequenced genomes of several social animals, including honey bees and zebra finches, and new technologies such as microarrays (which allow researchers to glimpse the activity of thousands ...
... a lot of energy in their attempts to breed with attractive partners. Not so the female zebra finch. If they have unattractive male partners, the females lay particularly big eggs that contain a lot ...
Zebra finches learn to sing from a song sheet in their head, according to new research.
... the current study, the University team was able, for the first time, to look at juvenile zebra finches. Using microelectrodes, the team observed changes in neuronal activity during sleep in a region ...
... bring the innate, "isolate" song into approximate conformity with the song learned within normal zebra finch "society." (This "cultured" song has been labeled "wild-type" by the scientists.) By the ...
... zebra finch hears a new song from a member of its own species, the experience changes gene ... levels of messenger RNAs in the auditory forebrain of finches exposed to a new song. These mRNAs are templates ...
... week of July 6, the scientists report that as zebra finches fine-tune their songs, the brain ... acquired information affects our actions."
Young zebra finches learn to sing by mimicking their fathers ...
