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 ...

This songbird, the zebra finch, is already an established animal model in several biological fields. Other than songbirds, only a few animals, such as whales and humans, can learn vocalizations.

McGill University postdoctoral fellow Logan James, an affiliated researcher with the nonprofit Earth Species Project, examines zebra finch recordings on Thursday, Dec. 12, 2024 in Montreal, Canada.