It was once thought that only male songbirds were capable of song. However, in 64 percent of all songbird species, the females sing. Professor Naomi Langmore first made this discovery by recording a ...
Female birds sing. That is one conclusion of our 2020 study on one of the most abundant, widespread, well-studied bird species in the world: the barn swallow. Despite the well over 1,000 scientific ...
Source: fir0002, via Wikimedia Commons. Traditionally, birdsong has been viewed as a male trait, and this bias has dominated research on the behavior. “For a long time, scientists thought that female ...
Female birds sing. That is one of the revelations of our 2020 study on one of the most abundant, widespread, well-studied bird species in the world: the barn swallow. Despite the well over 1,000 ...
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Female canaries, which typically do not sing, have the ability to do so throughout their entire lives
A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence tackles this by focusing on female canaries, which do not normally sing, but nevertheless contain the full neural machinery for ...
Female European robins (Erithacus rubecula) sing throughout autumn and winter – and their songs are just as physically and mentally challenging as those of males. Outside the breeding season, when ...
Male and female lar gibbons sing duets with notes that are synchronised and occur at regular intervals. These are rhythmic qualities similar to those found in human songs, which could hint at an ...
Female canaries do not sing, yet their brains maintain the ability to sing throughout their lives. The study shows that inactive neuronal circuits can be activated when needed. Credit: MPI for ...
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