Individual zebra finches vary their immune response to balance the costs, depending on sex, age and the environment. When changing from nest-bound juveniles to adults, female immune responses ...

Female zebra finches are almost entirely gray and don't sing like the males. When they're young, all zebra finches look like females, except their beaks are black instead of orange.

Zebra finches are found in Australia, and they usually mate monogamously for life — making this a high-stakes decision for the female finches. The zebra finch is among about a third of songbirds ...

Female zebra finches are picky in their mates, and have found a clever way to reproduce if they don't find someone. By Margo Milanowski. Updated Nov 5, 2021 12:47 PM EDT. Wolfgang Forstmeier.

Female zebra finches can become worked up when they hear the calls of their stressed out mates. This suggests the animals may experience empathy, which could play a crucial role in the ...

Zebra finches form monogamous lifetime partnerships, but both males and females indulge in extramarital sex. The benefit for the males is clear: the chance to sire more offspring than ...

Courtship song preferences in female zebra finches are shaped by developmental auditory experience. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences , 2017; 284 (1855): 20170054 DOI: 10. ...

Thus, female zebra finches pay more attention to a cultural trait than to male appearance. To us, bird song may just sound pretty. However, if we want to understand why birds sing, ...

The experiment didn't really show why zebra finches pair up based on a female's individual tastes. But whatever made the birds evolve to behave this way, it seems to matter quite a lot. Read More: ...

Vallentin and her team now discovered that female zebra finches play a far more active and influential role in shaping their sons' vocal abilities than previously imagined. When young males practice ...

Two varieties of songbird--zebra finch and European starling--were found to shed mercury accumulation with their feathers in a recent study. During a molt, ...