In the world of zebra finches, males sing, and females were thought to just listen. But a new study by Daniela Vallentin at ...
A tiny zebra finch named Mamé loves to climb aboard her tiny skateboard and ride down tiny ramps that her human Viola sets up ...
Scientists tell us that the family dog shuffling its legs while asleep on the floor really is dreaming. And when a bird ...
To a human ear the songs of all male zebra finches sound more or less the same. But faced with a chorus of this simple song, female finches can pick the performer who sings most beautifully. Zebra ...
Her apology coincided with the release of a TV series about her lies. Friends and family aren't buying her remorse.
ChatGPT changed how humans view and interact with language. Here’s how the Earth Species Project is using new billionaire ...
Owners of a new store just north of downtown Loveland hope to provide a variety of goods from vendors across Northern ...
Constance Scharff of the Free University of Berlin then discovered that this very same gene is more active in a part of the brain of a young zebra finch, just when the bird learns to sing.
Scientists set zebra finches a "battery of foraging tasks" in the presence or absence of the noise. They found that the sound of passing cars diminished the birds' ability to find food.
Then a camouflaged speaker that scientists had placed nearby started to play. First came a recorded honk from an unpartnered ...
Willow and Finch, 1032 N. Lincoln Ave., will celebrate its grand opening Oct. 15 and, from then on, will be open from 10 a.m.
They say that hindsight is 20/20, and though the theory of ecological speciation -- which holds that new species emerge in response to ecological changes -- seems to hold in retrospect, it has been ...