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Do Contingencies with Tutor Behaviour Influence Song Learning in Zebra Finches?

Behaviour, Vol. 135, No. 5 (Jul., 1998), pp. 599-614 (16 pages) Social interaction with a song tutor is often found to be important for the song learning process in songbirds, but the mechanism is ...
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Variations in Zebra Finch Song Copying: An Examination of the Relationship with Tutor Song Quality and Pupil Behaviour

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this study we explore whether individual differences in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) song copying covary with differences in tutor ...
The Conversation

Birding by ear: How to learn the songs of nature’s symphony with some simple techniques

Associate Professor of Wildlife and Fisheries Resources, West Virginia University Waking up to the dawn chorus of birds – one of the natural world’s greatest symphonies – is a joy like no other. It is ...
Science Daily

Relocated songbirds can successfully learn the diversity of song they need to survive

New research focused on a population of cirl bunting reintroduced into Cornwall from 2006 as part of a major conservation program. It suggests that if the translocation of nestlings is deemed ...
Medicine Buffalo

Study findings contradict the nearly universal belief that humpback whales learn their songs from other whales

BUFFALO, N.Y. – In a quieter era when a ship’s progress at sea arrived only through the courtesy of the wind, sailors told stories of intriguing sounds coming from humpback whales. If conditions were ...