Zebra finches have a more complex way of communicating than previously thought. A new study published in the journal Science found that the sociable songbird does not just recognize and organize ...

Like humans who can instantly tell which friend or relative is calling by the timbre of the person's voice, zebra finches have a near-human capacity for language mapping. If songbirds could appear on ...

Heat calls produced by incubating adult zebra finches when temperatures are high, heard against the background noise of the colony. The heat call is a high pitched quickly repeating song. The birds ...