We briefly review the literature on social learning in birds, concluding that strong evidence
exists mainly for predator recognition, song, mate choice and foraging. The mechanism of …

Songbirds as a whole are considered to be vocal production learners, meaning that they
modify the structure of their vocalizations as a result of experience with the vocalizations of …

Some oscine songbird species modify their songs throughout their lives ('adult song
plasticity'or 'open-ended learning'), while others crystallize their songs around sexual …

A number of recent studies have revealed correspondences between song-and language-
related neural structures, pathways, and gene expression in humans and songbirds …

Juvenile songbirds express species-specific song discrimination from an early age, which
focuses learning onto the songs of their parental species. However, it remains unknown …

Many vocalizing animals produce the discrete elements of their acoustic signals in a specific
sequential order, but we know little about the biological relevance of this ordering. For that …

To provide reliable information about individual-specific characteristics, sexual signals
should be consistently displayed within an individual at least within a particular social …

This article examines the gendered dynamics of wildland firefighting through analysis of
employment statistics and in-depth interviews with employees of the National Parks and …

Population differences in socially learned mating signals like oscine birdsong are
particularly vulnerable to breakdown through dispersal. 1 Despite this challenge …

Species-specific sexual traits facilitate species-assortative mating by reducing mating across
species and reducing hybrid sexual attractiveness. For learned sexual traits, such as song in …