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"Like children, young zebra finches start by babbling. They hear other birds singing, memorize this and start practicing," says Riebel, a researcher at the Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL). "To ...

Not all birds sing, but those that do — some several thousand species — do it a lot. All over the world, as soon as light filters over the horizon, songbirds launch their serenades. They sing to ...

Australian wild zebra finches sing more with others around when breeding conditions are favorable. Their song also changes based on their breeding stage and it attracts other zebra finches. A possible ...

Complex learning processes like speaking or singing follow similar patterns. Using the example of zebra finches, researchers have investigated how young birds imitate the courtship songs of 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 ...