News tagged with juvenile song
It takes two to tutor a sparrow
(PhysOrg.com) -- It may take a village to raise a child, and apparently it takes at least two adult birds to teach a young song sparrow how and what to sing.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Study finds evidence of sperm whale culture
Differences in the patterned clicks that sperm whales use to communicate with each other seem to be down to culture and not genetics, say researchers.
Dec 05, 2011 |
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Record number of whales, krill found in Antarctic bays
Scientists have observed a "super-aggregation" of more than 300 humpback whales gorging on the largest swarm of Antarctic krill seen in more than 20 years in bays along the Western Antarctic Peninsula.
Apr 27, 2011 |
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Size Matters: Eavesdropping on Sexual Signals
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the animal kingdom, sexual signals often are manifested as displays of bright coloration or, in the case of crickets, as loud song.
May 12, 2010 |
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Which Side Are You On? Birds Need Tutoring to Find Out
(PhysOrg.com) -- Just like us, songbirds need tutoring to learn to vocalize and sing.
Feb 18, 2010 |
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Scientists image brain at point when vocal learning begins
Duke University Medical Center scientists crowded around a laser-powered microscope in a darkened room to peer into the brain of an anesthetized juvenile songbird right after he heard an adult tutors' song for the first ...
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Feb 17, 2010 |
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Duke scientists map brain pathway for vocal learning
Scientists at Duke University Medical Center have identified neurons in the songbird brain that convey the auditory feedback needed to learn a song.
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Jan 13, 2010 |
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Tiny Bacteria Secret to Cicada's Success
(PhysOrg.com) -- John McCutcheon remembers the song of the cicada - the loudest song in the insect world - as the sound track to countless summer hours spent playing outside his childhood home in Rockford, ...
Sep 14, 2009 |
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Songbirds' elaborate cries for food show first signs of vocal learning
(PhysOrg.com) -- Only a handful of social animals -- songbirds, some marine mammals, some bats and humans -- learn to actively style their vocal communications. Babies, for instance, start by babbling, their first chance ...
Jul 24, 2009 |
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Canaries: A bad performance is better than no performance at all (w/Audio)
(PhysOrg.com) -- The learning of birdsong resembles the learning of speech in humans. Crucial for the process are acoustic perception and the ability to produce sound. Social isolation leads to a disturbed ...
May 27, 2009 |
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Bird songs change with environment
Just as a changing radio landscape has made it tough for Foghat to get much airplay these days, so it is for birdsongs according to new research published in The American Naturalist.
May 20, 2009 |
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