The following excerpt from a review by Paul Hamel in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology serves well as an abstract: "Wow, what a great book! Discretion suggests I stop at that first impression, yet the task of reviewing demands that readers receive more for their interest. Eugene McCart...

This chapter covers the multifaceted aspects of canary domestication and its influence in world culture. It investigates the emergence of the canary as a singing cage bird and its subsequent domestication, and gives an overview of its cultural significance and practices associated with canaries thro...

Here we assess the communicational behaviour, sexual signaling and breeding success of interspecies hybrids kept in captivity (Duncker, 1927). As part of a sequence of iterated backcrossing under Mendel’s work , we conducted pairing a male Serinus canaria domestica with two females’ hybrids F1 [F1 o...