Thus, female zebra finches pay more attention to a cultural trait than to male appearance. ... Which species is it, and which individual? Songbirds vary widely in how they sing.

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 ...

Dr. WOOLLEY: That was the zebra finch. Each species sings its own species-typical song. SIEGEL: And another finch you've worked with, I gather, is the Bengalese finch.

The photo shows two zebra finch pairs: one pair from a wild-derived populations ... In other species, such as the yellowhammer, males are a lot more stereotypic and uniform.

Today's publication in Nature of the genetic blueprint for the zebra finch marks 10 years of success for the Ensembl project in helping researchers to navigate the genomes of a Noah's Ark of species.

Male zebra finches sing only one song to attract their mates. ... Antalya Metropolitan Municipality Zoo and Nature Park hosts 1,500 animals from 140 species including parrots, ducks, flamingos, ...

Zebra finch females are finicky about men — and if they don't get their way, their offspring suffer. ... This one species of octopus plays with its food and has really weird sex.

The group’s study, which was published online late last year, is one of just a handful of projects that have experimentally investigated the reasons that pairs of monogamous animals split up.Indeed, ...