Teaching wild birds to sing a new tune
Thursday, October 4, 2018 - 10:30
in Biology & Nature
Like toddlers learning to speak, young birds learn to sing by listening to the voices of adults. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on October 4 have shown for the first time that they could teach young sparrows in the wild how to sing a new tune. The wild birds then passed the new songs on to the next generation.