The zebra finch is among about a third of songbirds who learn a single song from their fathers early in life, and sing it ...

Juvenile male zebra finches normally learn to sing by memorizing the song of an older male, and then using auditory feedback to gradually match their own vocalizations to this 'internal model'.

this difference in sex chromosome regulation might be related to the zebra finch's singing behavior. Further analysis of the zebra finch's genome showed that singing significantly altered the ...