Do Smart Songbirds Always Get the Girl? (AUDIO)

Florida Atlantic University

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Just as babies learn how to talk by babbling, young male songbirds copy and practice songs that they hear produced by other males in neighborhoods in which they will later establish their own territories. Researchers played audio recordings from adult male song sparrows from the same population to look at the association between song learning and performance on cognitive tests.

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