In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird's brain on song. In one, ...

In his home office in Durham, Duke neuroscientist Richard Mooney shows a series of images of a bird's brain on song.In one, ...

Attract the elegant zebra swallowtail butterfly to your yard by growing nectar plants. Also discover the host plant for the ...

In vertebrate retinas, specialized photoreceptors responsible for color vision (cone cells) arrange themselves in patterns ...

The species, named for its distinct “eyebrows” and throat color, was found 215 miles away from its closest known location in ...

Founded over 30 years ago, the Transvaal Zebra Finch Society hosts two bird shows annually, one in March/April and the other ...

The Transvaal Zebra Finch Society welcomed wildlife enthusiasts to their Classic Bird Show, showcasing zebra and Bengalese ...

"Incredibly flexible" spoken language is produced through delicate patterns in the human brain, the researchers say. To determine whether the patterns are unique to humans, the research team performed ...

The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...

A new study explains how a parakeet's brain helps it to mimic human words.By recording for the first time the brain activity of parakeets as they made ...

The research, published March 19 in the journal Nature, suggests parrots (and specifically parakeets) could be a model for ...

A new study explains how a parakeet's brain helps it to mimic human words. By recording for the first time the brain activity ...