Social learning of food types in zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata) is directed by demonstrator sex and feeding activity

2003 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Katz ◽  
R. F. Lachlan
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Feeding Activity ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Taenopygia Guttata

Opioid modulation of cell proliferation in the ventricular zone of adult zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata)

2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (10) ◽  
pp. 3681-3695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazia Khurshid ◽  
L. Shahul Hameed ◽  
Sivaraj Mohanasundaram ◽  
Soumya Iyengar
Keyword(s):  
Cell Proliferation ◽  
Ventricular Zone ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Taenopygia Guttata

The expression of DARPP-32 in adult male zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata)

2019 ◽  
Vol 224 (8) ◽  
pp. 2939-2972 ◽  
Author(s):  
Utkarsha A. Singh ◽  
Soumya Iyengar
Keyword(s):  
Adult Male ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Taenopygia Guttata

scholarly journals Early-Life Stress Triggers Juvenile Zebra Finches to Switch Social Learning Strategies

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (16) ◽  
pp. 2184-2188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damien R. Farine ◽  
Karen A. Spencer ◽  
Neeltje J. Boogert
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Life Stress ◽  
Early Life ◽  
Early Life Stress ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Social Learning Strategies

Opioid modulation of song in male zebra finches (Taenopygia guttata)

2010 ◽  
Vol 208 (2) ◽  
pp. 359-370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nazia Khurshid ◽  
Navin Jayaprakash ◽  
L. Shahul Hameed ◽  
Sivaraj Mohanasundaram ◽  
Soumya Iyengar
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Taenopygia Guttata

scholarly journals Foraging zebra finches ( Taeniopygia guttata ) are public information users rather than conformists

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 20200767
Author(s):  
Edwin J. C. van Leeuwen ◽  
Thomas J. H. Morgan ◽  
Katharina Riebel
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Information Acquisition ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Taeniopygia Guttata ◽  
Food Sources ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Foraging Activity ◽  
Novel Food ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Evolutionary Origins

Social learning enables adaptive information acquisition provided that it is not random but selective. To understand species typical decision-making and to trace the evolutionary origins of social learning, the heuristics social learners use need to be identified. Here, we experimentally tested the nature of majority influence in the zebra finch. Subjects simultaneously observed two demonstrator groups differing in relative and absolute numbers (ratios 1 : 2/2 : 4/3 : 3/1 : 5) foraging from two novel food sources (black and white feeders). We find that demonstrator groups influenced observers' feeder choices (social learning), but that zebra finches did not copy the majority of individuals. Instead, observers were influenced by the foraging activity (pecks) of the demonstrators and in an anti-conformist fashion. These results indicate that zebra finches are not conformist, but are public information users.

scholarly journals Social learning in nest-building birds: a role for familiarity

2016 ◽  
Vol 283 (1827) ◽  
pp. 20152685 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren M. Guillette ◽  
Alice C. Y. Scott ◽  
Susan D. Healy
Keyword(s):  
Social Learning ◽  
Social Information ◽  
Nest Building ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Nest Material ◽  
Conspecific Male ◽  
Error Learning ◽  
First Time

It is becoming apparent that birds learn from their own experiences of nest building. What is not clear is whether birds can learn from watching conspecifics build. As social learning allows an animal to gain information without engaging in costly trial-and-error learning, first-time builders should exploit the successful habits of experienced builders. We presented first-time nest-building male zebra finches with either a familiar or an unfamiliar conspecific male building with material of a colour the observer did not like. When given the opportunity to build, males that had watched a familiar male build switched their material preference to that used by the familiar male. Males that observed unfamiliar birds did not. Thus, first-time nest builders use social information and copy the nest material choices when demonstrators are familiar but not when they are strangers. The relationships between individuals therefore influence how nest-building expertise is socially transmitted in zebra finches.

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