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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 ...
Interesting Engineering on MSN5d
Parrot brains are built to talk like humans, share similar speech brain circuits
The ability of parrots to mimic human speech has long fascinated people, but a new study reveals that their gift of gab goes ...
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Embryonic Eavesdropping: How Animals Hear and Respond to Sound
While working as a researcher at Deakin University in Australia, Mariette had planted microphones in the nests of captive zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) to study how male-female pairs coordinate ...
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Leslie Phillmore
Animal Cognition. 20(5): 961-973. •Phillmore LS, Fisk J, Falk S, Tsang CD. (2017). Songbirds as objective listeners: Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) can discriminate infant-directed song and ...