Recently in Nature(399, 466– 470, 1999), Anthony Leonardo and Mark Konishi of Caltech reported that zebra finches retain a surprising ability to modify their songs in response to auditory ...

The research team analyzed songs from six adult male Bengalese finches, each capable of singing sequences of 7 to 15 distinct syllables. They developed a sophisticated mathematical approach called ...

this difference in sex chromosome regulation might be related to the zebra finch's singing behavior. Further analysis of the zebra finch's genome showed that singing significantly altered the ...