New research from Waseda University shows that zebra finches use their amygdala brain region to choose which older birds to ...

When a major cyclone tears through an island nation, all efforts rightly focus on saving human lives and restoring ...

Some other exciting findings from the songbird brain are that the brain ... neuroscience and provided new challenges for animal facilities as they seek to develop best practices for housing ...

Mountain chickadees follow systematic grammarlike rules to share important information, stringing together syllables like ...

Lily-Arison René de Roland, a conservationist with a knack for finding elusive species, is the tenth winner of the Indianapolis Prize for animal conservation. After considering 44 nominees and six ...

A Fairbanks biologist recently cupped in his hand a tiny bird whose arrival he had been rooting for. That bird — a female ...

The North Dakota Game and Fish Department offers a simple message to the well-intentioned who want to rescue what appear to ...

as well as efforts to attempt "cultural rescue" in a declining songbird population. More information: Philippa Brakes et al, Animal culture: conservation in a changing world, Philosophical ...

"The songbird song system is really the closest animal model we have to human language in many ways. For example, many songbirds are vocal learners and produce complex vocal syntax. In this paper ...