Female Bengalese finches have a natural preference for their fathers’ songs over the songs of any other birds — a preference they will carry for their entire lives. (CN) — Female Bengalese finches, ...

The elaborate songs of a bird species famed for its wide repertoire of tunes have been decoded for the first time. Scientists have been able to predict the correct sequence of notes and "syllables" in ...

Sarah Woolley, a professor of behavior neuroscience in the psychology department of Columbia University, studies different species of finches to figure out how the brain recognizes and processes ...

Okinawa, Japan -- Like humans learning to speak, juvenile birds learn to sing by mimicking vocalizations of adults of the same species during development. Juvenile birds preferentially learn the song ...

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DURHAM, N.C. -- Fall is here, and we see the leaves turning yellow, orange or red thanks to a trick of our vision: our brains categorize colors. Scientists have learned that birds with colorful ...

Neurons in zebra finch brains operate as a barcode reader to detect songs of the same species during learning, report scientists. Like humans learning to speak, juvenile birds learn to sing by ...

Bird lovers, especially avid finch lovers, should not miss the Transvaal Zebra Finch Society’s (TZFS) Fred Barnicoat Classic Zebra and Bengalese Show in Benoni on April 18. Top show class birds – some ...

Bird lovers, especially avid finch lovers, should not miss the Transvaal Zebra Finch Society’s (TZFS) Fred Barnicoat Classic Zebra and Bengalese Show in Benoni on April 18. Top show class birds – some ...

One of the great challenges in neuroscience is to explain how collections of neural circuits produce the complex sequences of signals that result in behaviours such as animal communication, birdsong ...