The Ripple Effect of Stress: What Zebra Finches Teach Us About Emotional Contagion
What happens to animals when their friends are stressed? Is it possible to document the spread of stress within groups of ...
Teaching old birds new tricks: Zebra finches defy age-related learning limits
Vallentin's team focused on zebra finches, songbirds known for their elaborate vocalizations. Like many animals, zebra ...
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Experiments find stress is contagious for animals, too
In three rounds of experiments lasting four weeks each, some members of groups of zebra finches were exposed to different disruptions resulting in stress. Cameras then recorded in fine detail how ...
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Singing in the brain: song learning in adult zebra finches
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 ...