zebra finches
Physiological, morphological and behavioural effects of selecting zebra finches for divergent levels of corticosterone
... in zebra finches have found that increasing stress during ontogeny by artificially increasing brood size negatively affects offspring skeletal growth, and this effect is carried over between generations ...
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Selective auditory grouping by zebra finches: testing the iambic-trochaic law
... All zebra finches in this study learned to discriminate between trochees and iambs when the tones varied in ...the zebra finches grouped the tones of long alternating strings into smaller ...
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Effects of intake rate on energy expenditure, somatic repair and reproduction of zebra finches
... that the nocturnal energy saving observed in the present study could not be attributed to mass changes, possibly through mild hypothermia which is often observed when birds suffer food shortage (McKechnie and Lovegrove, ...
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Bill Redness Is Positively Associated with Reproduction and Survival in Male and Female Zebra Finches
... male zebra finches, but negatively so in ...captive zebra finch population without two possible limitations of this earlier ...female zebra finches honestly signals phenotypic quality, ...
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D'Amelio, Pietro Bruno (2018): Vocal communication in zebra finches: a focused description of pair vocal activity. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... Zebra finches are group-living songbirds that form life- long, monogamous pairs in the wild [25, 26] and in captiv- ity ...[28]. Zebra finches utter several thousand vocalisations each day ...
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Poot, Hanneke (2013): So happy together: Social behaviour & song learning in Zebra finches. Dissertation, LMU München: Fakultät für Biologie
... the Zebra Finch as a model ...since Zebra Finches live in large flocks and are exposed to many tutors and involved in diverse and complex social interactions (Zann ...domesticated Zebra ...
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Mechanisms underlying speech sound discrimination and categorization in humans and zebra finches
... Birds—Zebra finches were individually housed in an operant conditioning chamber (Skinnerbox) (70 (l) × 30 (d) × 45 (h) cm), constructed of wire mesh front and side walls and a foamed PVC back ...
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No response to linear polarization cues in operant conditioning experiments with zebra finches
... male zebra finches in the ‘ visible ’ spectral range (wavelengths >400 ...here, zebra finches are not able to discriminate polarized light ...
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The quantity–quality trade off: differential effects of daily food availability times on reproductive performance and offspring quality in diurnal zebra finches
... in zebra finches (Taeniopygia ...in zebra finches, which, much like humans, are diurnal and retain the ability to reproduce throughout the ...
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Transient and permanent effects of suboptimal incubation temperatures on growth, metabolic rate, immune function and adrenocortical responses in zebra finches
... In birds, incubation temperature can vary by several degrees Celsius among nests of a given species. Parents may alter incubation temperature to cope with environmental conditions and/or to manipulate embryonic ...
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Zebra finches have a light dependent magnetic compass similar to migratory birds
... the zebra finches under the same wavelength of light, we expected them to also be oriented towards the trained magnetic compass direction in the presence of an antagonistic mechanism (see Deutschlander et ...
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Biochemical integration of blood redox state in captive zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
... Integration is a property of biological systems that refers to the extent to which their components are correlated through functional, structural, developmental or evolutionary interdependency. This study examined ...
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Immediate and delayed effects of growth conditions on ageing parameters in nestling zebra finches
... Telomere length was measured at 10 days, 30 days and 1 year after the experiment. Telomere length was measured on DNA extracted from red blood cells (stored for 3 months at – 20°C until analysis) using DNeasy Blood and ...
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Increased fat catabolism sustains water balance during fasting in zebra finches
... Experimental birds originated from the captive population maintained at the Institute of Environmental Sciences since 2000. The birds were 8 – 24 months old. For 2 months prior to the experiment, the birds were kept in ...
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Visual and behavioural influences on song tutor choice in Zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)
... Bengalese finches will readily foster a zebra finch brood. The zebra finches will invariably learn from their Bengalese foster parents if kept in the same cage with them, even if they can see ...
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Oscillating magnetic field disrupts magnetic orientation in Zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata
... Background: Zebra finches can be trained to use the geomagnetic field as a directional cue for short distance orientation. The physical mechanisms underlying the primary processes of magnetoreception are, ...
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Quality of public information matters in mate-choice copying in female zebra finches
... wild zebra finches that were exported from Northern Victoria, Australia, in 1992 (Meyer T, personal communi- ...in zebra finch mate choice; [27, 28, ...libitum. Zebra finches were fed ...
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Respiratory patterns and oxygen consumption in singing zebra finches
... In three male zebra finches, tracheal airflow was measured simultaneously with air sac pressure. Flow was monitored with a microbead thermistor (BB05JA202, Thermometrics, Edison, NJ, USA), which was ...
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Metabolic and respiratory costs of increasing song amplitude in zebra finches
... including zebra finches, may sing hundreds of songs per day, so even very small increases in energetic costs may translate to a larger cost over the course of a day or breeding ...in zebra ...
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The effects of corticosterone and social isolation on song stereotypy and neural plasticity in zebra finches
... for zebra finch nestlings (Spencer & Verhulst, ...in zebra finches resulted in delayed behavioral outcomes such as reduced neophobia (in males only) and reduced success when competing for non- ...
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