Testosterone gets female canaries singing. Dutch researchers know how you can make a female canary sing using testosterone and the protein BDNF. Normally, female canaries don't sing, but with a few ...

Brain plasticity: The brains of canary females maintain the ability to sing throughout their lives, even though the birds do not usually sing, shining light on how neural circuits can stay dormant yet ...

Young canary males can be tempted to sing songs that do not sound very canarylike, but as breeding season approaches, maturing canary males transform their biologically untested songs into ...

Who knew canaries were taught songs? And who knew there were mechanical devices called serinettes that, when cranked by hand, taught new melodies to London Fancys, Yorkshire Spangles, Norwich Yellows, ...