Funding: This work was supported by National Institutes of Health (R35 GM150714, RO1 AR047364, R37 AR060306, RO1 AR078050 to CMC), National Science and Technology Council (Dragon Gate fellowship ...

Zebra finches are small Australian songbirds that often partner for life. Males sing melodies to attract a mate, while females learn which tunes they prefer by listening to adults.

Zing, a 12-day-old male zonkey, feeds from his mother Zola, a 13-year-old female plains zebra, Thursday, July 13, 2023, at CoaSTable ranch in Palm City. Zing is a rare hybrid, made even more ...

Zebra finches are small Australian songbirds that often partner for life. Males sing melodies to attract a mate, while females learn which tunes they prefer by listening to adults.

He is the son of Zola, a female zebra, and Dominic, a male miniature donkey. Zing looks like Zola from his legs down, with black-and-white stripes.

According to a study published in the journal Biology Letters on June 20, female zebrafish can select the best quality sperm using their female reproduction fluid (FRF)—the fluid that surrounds ...

Nadia, who was visiting Kruger National Park with her three-year-old daughter, recalls watching a pregnant mare have to fight off a stallion while giving birth. The baby she was about to have was ...

But if two male zebra finches both have an equally good song that they've practised their little hearts out to learn, how does the female decide who's the fittest? Todd Roberts ...

"The female zebra finches in the playback experiment could directly hear the difference and 75 percent preferred the songs from the well exercised male," says Katharina Riebel, author on the study ...