Captive rearing experiments confirm song development without learning in a tracheophone suboscine bird.

The origin of vocal learning in animals has long been the subject of debate, but progress has been limited by uncertainty regarding the distribution of learning mechanisms across the tree of life, even for model systems such as birdsong. In particular, the importance of learning is well known in osc...

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Main Authors: Janeene M Touchton, Nathalie Seddon, Joseph A Tobias
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4005748?pdf=render