The Bengalese finch is the domesticated strain of the wild white-rumped munia. Bengalese
finches have been domesticated and reproductively isolated for over 250 years from the wild …

As an increasing number of researchers investigate the cognitive abilities of an ever‐wider
range of animals, animal cognition is currently among the most exciting fields within animal …

Social learning of vocalizations is integral to song inheritance in oscine passerines.
However, other factors, such as genetic inheritance and the developmental environment …

Domesticated animals evolve unique traits, known as the domestication phenotypes or the
domestication syndrome, due to their adaptation to a captive environment and changes in …

Bengalese finches (BFs) are a domesticated strain of wild white-rumped munias imported
from China to Japan 250 years ago. Bengalese songs are composed of multiple chunks of …

Bengalese finches (Lonchura striata var. domestica) have more complex song traits than
their wild ancestors, white-rumped munias (Lonchura striata). Domesticated finches are …

ABSTRACT Domesticated Bengalese finch (Lonchura striata var. domestica) lack natural
selection pressures and consequently have more complex songs and altered behavioural …

In this chapter, I first provide basic knowledge of the biopsychology of birdsong. Because
birdsong is a communication signal, studies on birdsong have had a profound influence on …

Among vocalizations birds make, a class of sounds that are consisted of more than two types
of sound patterns arranged in a certain temporal sequence is called as a 'birdsong', not only …