Article: Reports from University of Auckland add new data to research in ethology.(Report)

Article: Every girl's crazy for a sharp-dressed bird: A William and Mary ...
Daily Press (Newport News, VA);  February 14, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... must have the taste of a zebra finch. Zebra finches are mostly monogamous, sticking with ... nutrition in his diet. But female zebra finches might not look for a sign like that ... Swaddle said. Different groups of zebra finches, over time, could drive evolution ...

Article: How zebra finches find fittest mate.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 2, 2008 ;     354 words ... ... Gursharan Randhawa Sep 02, 2008 (New Scientist - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Nature has given female zebra finches a way to find their ideal mate. Zebra finches mate for life, so the female needs to pick the best mate for herself. Female finches make ...

Article: Sweet Dreams.(dreams of zebra finches)(Brief ...
National Wildlife;  February 1, 2001 ;     510 words ... ... dream about while they sleep? A recent study suggests that zebra finches, at least, dream of singing. The colorful songbirds ... attract mates, and learn their songs by imitating other zebra finches. Daniel Margoliash and Amish Dave at the University of Chicago ...

Article: Secret to birds' mating score: speedy sperm. (study of ...
Science News;  October 7, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... physiology of sperm production and sperm morphology in zebra finches," says David F. Westneat of the University of Kentucky ... Lexington. The team collected sperm by allowing male zebra finches to mate with a freeze-dried female equipped with ...

Article: Zebra finches are welcome garden guests
Western Morning News, The Plymouth (UK);  November 13, 2007 ;     284 words ... ... appearance at our bird table of four brilliantly-coloured visitors. About the size of sparrows, they turned out to be zebra finches. Three are basically brown and one is white but all share the same beautiful facial and body colours. They have been here ...

Article: Do songbirds sing of Alzheimer's? (research on zebra ...
Science News;  August 26, 1995 ;     700+ words ... ... pinpointed specific regions of the avian brain crucial to these distinct phases of song learning. Now, investigators studying zebra finches have unearthed a protein, which they named synelfin, that may play a role in the memorization phase. An area of the brain ...

Article: Souping up the eggs if dad's hot stuff.(female zebra ...
Science News;  October 30, 1999 ;     560 words ...A female zebra finch with an attractive mate laces her eggs with more testosterone than a finch stuck with a dud. That jolt of extra testosterone can give a chick a good start in life, driving it to beg for food more insistently and grow faster, explains Diego Gil, now at the University of Paris in