Birds create songs by moving muscles in their vocal organs to vibrate air passing through their tissues. While previous research reported that each of the different muscles controls one acoustic ...

Sealed within an eggshell, how can chicks prepare for the world into which they are about to hatch, with no obvious direct communication channel across the shell? Adult zebra finches produce ...

Male zebra finches learn their song by imitating conspecifics. To stand out in the crowd, each male develops its own unique song. Because of this individual-specific song, it was long assumed that ...

Researchers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, believe they have located a place in the brain where songbirds store the memories of their parents' songs. Researchers at Rutgers, The State ...

BOSTON, Nov. 30 (UPI) --Neuroscientists at MIT have detailed the song-learning process by studying the brains of zebra finches, a small Australian songbird. In the first two weeks of life, young birds ...

You know how that guy at the karaoke bar singing Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” sounds a little off after he’s had a few drinks? The same goes for buzzed birds, according to a team led by ...

Does beer make you shlur your wordsh? You’re not alone: drunk zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) sing songs that are blurrier and more disordered than those of their sober counterparts. What’s ...

Many types of synaptic and behavioral plasticity decline as animals mature, but we still do not understand what causes adult behaviors to stabilize. Recently in Nature(399, 466– 470, 1999), Anthony ...