Zebra finches have a more complex way of communicating than previously thought. A new study published in the journal Science found that the sociable songbird does not just recognize and organize ...

For years, scientists have been able to link many animal calls with particular situations. A warning call may send a group ...

Heat calls produced by incubating adult zebra finches when temperatures are high, heard against the background noise of the colony. The heat call is a high pitched quickly repeating song. The birds ...

Dr Julie Elie of the University of California, Berkeley has won the 2026 Coller-Dolittle Prize, receiving $100,000 for decoding zebra finch vocalisations. She identified 11 core calls and mapped their ...

Calling someone a bird-brain may not be the insult it was intended to be. Although small in size, some birds’ brains, such as the zebra finch, are filled with more neurons and synapses than can be ...

Their first vocalizations help young zebra finch males to memorize the songs of adults. When babies learn to talk or birds learn to sing, the same principle applies: listen and then imitate. This is ...

Australian zebra finches sing a rhythmic high-pitched song while incubating their eggs in a hot environment, which researchers have named a “heat call”. Experiments now show that this call influences ...

Three male and two female zebra finches, including two mating pairs. Females are typically all gray, though here one female is a white morph. Males are colorful, with red cheeks, zebra stripes on ...

When you hear beautiful birdsong, such as the warbling of the Australasian magpie, you might believe it's a sign of intense competition for territory or showing off to attract a mate. So when you hear ...

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