New research shows zebra finches engage in socially guided vocal learning, where they learn their songs by watching their mothers' reactions to their immature songs. Scientists rely on animal models ...
As in human speech acquisition, songbird vocal learning depends on early auditory experience. During development, juvenile songbirds listen to and form auditory memories of adult tutor songs, which ...
Researchers have found that how well a male songbird learns his song affects the female's mating response – the first evidence that female birds use song-learning ability as an indicator of male ...
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