The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a firm favorite among bird lovers. These tiny Australian seed eaters are one of the most common finches in captivity, and they are a very affordable ...

Zebra finches are found in Australia ... They generated synthetic bird songs to see if females preferred those with a longer path — and they did, suggesting the birds’ intended audience ...

Another recent research study that analyzed gene expression in the auditory forebrain of the zebra finch had shown that when a bird listened to a song, distinct sets of RNA were expressed in ...

Recently in Nature(399, 466– 470, 1999), Anthony Leonardo and Mark Konishi of Caltech reported that zebra finches retain a surprising ability to modify their songs in response to auditory ...