Female songbirds choose mates based on their songs, and this study provides some insights into what aspects of song they use to identify a "quality" male When a female chooses a mate, she is looking ...

Testosterone gets female canaries singing. Dutch researchers know how you can make a female canary sing using testosterone and the protein BDNF. Normally, female canaries don't sing, but with a few ...

Young canary males can be tempted to sing songs that do not sound very canarylike, but as breeding season approaches, maturing canary males transform their biologically untested songs into ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Motor constraints on vocal production impose a trade-off between trill rate and frequency bandwidth within birdsong. We tested whether ...