Article: The Trouble With Spikol; Finch Pin; The birds are key.

Article: DARN THOSE AMOROUS BIRDBRAINS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  February 28, 2002 ;     700+ words ......years ago, my friend Carm gave me two zebra finches in a small black cage. They were brother...wrote an article about the joys of raising zebra finches, the joys of caring for zebra finches, the joys of listening to zebra finches...

Article: Every girl's crazy for a sharp-dressed bird: A William and Mary study suggests that female zebra finches look for males like those in existing monogamous couples.
Daily Press (Newport News, VA);  February 14, 2007 ;     491 words ......must have the taste of a zebra finch. Zebra finches are mostly monogamous, sticking with...more 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 of...

Article: Reports outline hormones research from Columbia University.
Women's Health Weekly;  April 2, 2009 ;     438 words ......potential mate. Song preferences in female zebra finches are known to be influenced by two factors...availability on song responsiveness in female zebra finches. juvenile female zebra finches were tutored for 10 days with 40 songs per...

Article: Sing It to Me
Natural History;  April 1, 2006 ;     213 words ...Young male zebra finches learn to sing by listening to adult tutors-oft...and Vicario played a tutor's song to young zebra finches for several weeks, then switched it off...Sidebar] Juvenile (left) and adult male zebra finches

Article: Reports from University of Auckland add new data to research in ethology.(Report)
Science Letter;  February 3, 2009 ;     297 words ......sexually reproducing species. Captive zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) are a model system...preferences of unmated captive-bred female zebra finches between unfamiliar captive males of...preference for conspecific males by female zebra finches, irrespective of heterospecific ...

Article: Sweet Dreams.(dreams of zebra finches)(Brief Article)
National Wildlife;  February 1, 2001 ;     170 words ......dream about while they sleep? A recent study suggests that zebra finches, at least, dream of singing. The colorful songbirds, native...to attract mates, and learn their songs by imitating other zebra finches. Daniel Margoliash and Amish Dave at the University of Chicago...

Article: Researchers conduct study on stuttering: Doctors use birds to understand this disorder
Philadelphia Tribune, The;  April 25, 2000 ;     612 words ......decided on a tiny songbird known as zebra finches that may help them better understand...and his colleagues are recording the zebra finches' song and are analyzing segments of...repetitions that correspond to stuttering. "Zebra finches have a very distinctive song, and some...

Article: New fears on junk food; Bird tests show poor diet link to early death
Evening Times;  July 2, 2003 ;     440 words ...TESTS on zebra finches have led Glasgow scientists to believe...quantities of birdseed. All the zebra finches were given the same normal diet...this month, an experiment using zebra finches revealed eating carrots may help...

Article: Secret to birds' mating score: speedy sperm. (study of zebra finches suggests sperm velocity and copulation with non-mates influence the rate of fertilization)(Brief Article)
Science News;  October 7, 1995 ;     364 words ......physiology of sperm production and sperm morphology in zebra finches, says David F. Westneat of the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The team collected sperm by allowing male zebra finches to mate with a freeze-dried female equipped with an...

Article: High volume, low fidelity: birds are less faithful as sounds blare.(This Week)(finches)
Science News;  August 25, 2007 ;     498 words ...Female zebra finches, normally devoted to their mates...finch habit when he noticed female zebra finches losing interest in video images...Laura Page worked with 20 pairs of zebra finches that had each spent at least 4 months...

Article: Tuning in to songbirds and their songs.
Science News;  March 21, 1987 ;     700+ words ......learning their species' song, baby male zebra finches show growth in one brain region while...in the MAN suggeststo Bottjer that zebra finches are born with a wide capacity for possible...other scientists' findings that baby zebra finches raised by different species learn the...

Article: How zebra finches find fittest mate.
Australasian Business Intelligence;  September 2, 2008 ;     119 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: PAGES OF A BIRD SONGBOOK; COLGATE PROJECT STUDIES HOW FINCHES LEARN WHAT THEY SING.(Local)
The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY);  July 20, 2004 ;     624 words ......spending her summer finding out how zebra finches remember songs. It beats working in...songs they have not heard. Braaten uses zebra finches, native to Australia, because they...PHOTO Michelle Gabel/Staff photographer ZEBRA FINCHES are native to Australia. The birds...

Article: Songbird study from CSHL, CCNY provides concrete measure of biology's impact on culture.
NewsRx Health & Science;  May 24, 2009 ;     700+ words ......among a species of songbirds called zebra finches. The study, which will appear online...may evolve. The study confirms that zebra finches raised in complete isolation do not...conformity with those of wild-type zebra finches, i.e., those raised under normal cultural...