A Hit of Dopamine Tells Baby Birds When Their Song Practice Is Paying Off
Qi was able to show that another chemical messenger called acetylcholine can trigger dopamine release in the bird’s brain ...
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Trees, Singing and Silent
Inscribed on the nameboard of an ottavino spinet (a small tabletop, or even laptop, harpsichord) dated 1710 and now in the ...
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What Bird Brains Can Teach Us About Learning a New Skill
Learn how Zebra finches' natural drive to learn their songs makes them masters of their craft - and what we can learn from ...
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From singing to dancing to sculpture, do animals make art?
The vast forests of eastern Australia are home to a fascinating bird: the satin bowerbird. When mating season arrives, this bluish-hued bird displays all its talent to seduce females. The ...
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Nature Notes | Spring is springing, and the birds are singing
While I am admittedly not always a fan of the piping hot summers we have here in Arizona, I do enjoy watching springtime ...
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Cockatoo’s Happy Strut While Singing ‘Sunday Serenade’ Is the Hype We All Deserve
Cockatoos are famously very rowdy birds. They love to yap, sometimes in English, sometimes in unintelligible squawks. Both ...
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This giant fish that gulps down birds is the stuff nightmares are made of
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