Brains of parrots, unlike songbirds, use human-like vocal control
The study relied on electrodes placed in the brains of parrots and songbirds and tracked the behavior of neurons in a region ...
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Budgie brains have a map of vocal sounds just like humans
Recordings of brain activity in budgerigars reveal sets of brain cells that represent different sounds like keys on a ...
Scientists map neural wiring of vocal circuits in songbirds
Researchers have mapped the long-range synaptic connections involved in vocal learning in zebra finches, uncovering new ...
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Birds can change their tunes as their populations evolve, researchers find
New research from the University of Oxford has provided fresh insights into how bird songs evolve over time. The analysis is based on over 100,000 songs.
Turns out birdsongs evolve with time and age — just like human music
Now it turns out that some birdsongs also contain a hidden world of shared language, with varying local accents and dialects ...
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Notes on Cage Birds (Second series); or, Practical Hints on the Management of British and Foreign Cage Birds, Hybrids, and Canaries
IN spite of all that has been and will be said and written against it, the practice of keeping birds in confinement is so popular and so wide-spread, that there is no chance of its coming to an end.