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Avian Conservation and Ecology, 2014 Extensive fragmentation of the sagebrush shrubsteppe of western North America could be contributing to observed population declines of songbirds in sagebrush habitat.
Elly C. Knight +2 more
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Short-term weather patterns influence avian body condition during the breeding season
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Despite a large body of literature investigating the effects of long-term climate trends on birds, the effects of short-term weather on individual body condition are less established.
Michael W. D. McCloy, Jacquelyn K. Grace
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Ecology and Evolution, 2016 The early developmental trajectory is affected by genetic and environmental factors that co‐depend and interact often in a complex way. In order to distinguish their respective roles, we used canaries (Serinus canaria) of different genetic backgrounds ...
Raïssa A. deBoer +2 more
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Heliyon, 2019 Background: The immediate early gene ZENK (acronym zif268, Egr-1, NGFI-A, krox24) has been used extensively in songbird research (Mello et al., 1992; Jarvis and Nottebohm, 1997), as well as other research areas.
Erin N. Scully +2 more
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Songbirds can learn flexible contextual control over syllable sequencing
eLife, 2021 The flexible control of sequential behavior is a fundamental aspect of speech, enabling endless reordering of a limited set of learned vocal elements (syllables or words). Songbirds are phylogenetically distant from humans but share both the capacity for
Lena Veit +3 more
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Early Auditory Experience Modifies Neuronal Firing Properties in the Zebra Finch Auditory Cortex
Frontiers in Neural Circuits, 2020 Songbirds learn to sing much as humans learn to speak. In zebra finches, one of the premier songbird models, males learn to sing for later courtship through a multistep learning process during the developmental period.
Takashi Kudo +3 more
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The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.Abstract Last year, we challenged the view that large‐bodied theropod dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus rex resembled primates in cognition and behavior, a proposition made by Herculano‐Houzel in 2023. More recently, Jensen et al. have criticized our work on this topic, raising methodological and conceptual issues.
Kai R. Caspar +5 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 Refueling performance is the primary currency of a successful migration as birds must maintain energy stores to achieve an optimal travel schedule. Migrating birds can anticipate heightened energy demand, not to mention increased uncertainty that energy ...
Emily B. Cohen +2 more
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Genome of a songbird unveiled [PDF]
Journal of Biology, 2010 An international collaborative effort has recently uncovered the genome of the zebra finch, a songbird model that has provided unique insights into an array of biological phenomena.
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Utterance evolution: the road to generative, combinatorial communicators
Biological Reviews, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Language has long been considered uniquely complex in the animal kingdom; however, animal research over the last decade has begun to challenge some long‐standing premises about exactly which language capacities are uniquely human. The task of resolving why and how complex communication systems evolve, particularly human language, has ...
Catherine Crockford +2 more
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