Not for Parents Only: Begging Calls Allow Nest-Mate Discrimination in Juvenile Zebra Finches

Ethology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 122 (3) ◽  
pp. 193-206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Séverine Ligout ◽  
Fabrice Dentressangle ◽  
Nicolas Mathevon ◽  
Clémentine Vignal
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Nest Mate

Early life nutritional stress affects song learning but not underlying neural circuitry in zebra finches.

2020 ◽  
Vol 134 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-232
Author(s):  
Khulganaa Buyannemekh ◽  
Jessica B. Zito ◽  
Michelle L. Tomaszycki
Keyword(s):  
Early Life ◽  
Nutritional Stress ◽  
Neural Circuitry ◽  
Song Learning ◽  
Zebra Finches

Song Memory During the Sensitive Period in Zebra Finches

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard F. Braaten
Keyword(s):  
Sensitive Period ◽  
Zebra Finches

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

scholarly journals Adding colour-realistic video images to audio playbacks increases stimulus engagement but does not enhance vocal learning in zebra finches

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Judith M. Varkevisser ◽  
Ralph Simon ◽  
Ezequiel Mendoza ◽  
Martin How ◽  
Idse van Hijlkema ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Cues ◽  
Sound Production ◽  
Visual Stimuli ◽  
Vocal Learning ◽  
Song Learning ◽  
Frame Rate ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Biologically Relevant ◽  
Video Images

AbstractBird song and human speech are learned early in life and for both cases engagement with live social tutors generally leads to better learning outcomes than passive audio-only exposure. Real-world tutor–tutee relations are normally not uni- but multimodal and observations suggest that visual cues related to sound production might enhance vocal learning. We tested this hypothesis by pairing appropriate, colour-realistic, high frame-rate videos of a singing adult male zebra finch tutor with song playbacks and presenting these stimuli to juvenile zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata). Juveniles exposed to song playbacks combined with video presentation of a singing bird approached the stimulus more often and spent more time close to it than juveniles exposed to audio playback only or audio playback combined with pixelated and time-reversed videos. However, higher engagement with the realistic audio–visual stimuli was not predictive of better song learning. Thus, although multimodality increased stimulus engagement and biologically relevant video content was more salient than colour and movement equivalent videos, the higher engagement with the realistic audio–visual stimuli did not lead to enhanced vocal learning. Whether the lack of three-dimensionality of a video tutor and/or the lack of meaningful social interaction make them less suitable for facilitating song learning than audio–visual exposure to a live tutor remains to be tested.

scholarly journals Colocalization of Immediate Early Genes in Catecholamine Cells after Song Exposure in Female Zebra Finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

2012 ◽  
Vol 79 (4) ◽  
pp. 252-260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen S. Lynch ◽  
Bettina Diekamp ◽  
Gregory F. Ball
Keyword(s):  
Immediate Early Genes ◽  
Taeniopygia Guttata ◽  
Immediate Early ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Early Genes

Parvalbumin-positive projection neurons characterise the vocal premotor pathway in male, but not female, zebra finches

2001 ◽  
Vol 917 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Martin Wild ◽  
Matthew N Williams ◽  
Roderick A Suthers
Keyword(s):  
Projection Neurons ◽  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Positive Projection

Oestrogenic modulation of singing in male zebra finches: differential effects on directed and undirected songs

1991 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 445-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Walters ◽  
Damary Collado ◽  
Cheryl F. Harding
Keyword(s):  
Zebra Finches ◽  
Differential Effects
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