Prenatal auditory stimulation is known to critically affect the development of acoustic
preference and species recognition throughout ontogeny in birds. We focus our review on …

Teaching is an important process of cultural transmission. Some have argued that human
teaching is a cognitive instinct–a form of 'natural cognition'centred on mindreading, shaped …

Embryos were traditionally considered to possess limited learning abilities because of the
immaturity of their developing brains. By contrast, neonates from diverse species show …

Vocal production learning (the capacity to learn to produce vocalizations) is a
multidimensional trait that involves different learning mechanisms during different temporal …

The lunar cycle is known to affect the behaviour of strictly nocturnal species, but for diurnal
species that are periodically active during the night, this has been less investigated …

Prenatal imitative learning is an emerging research area in both human and non-human
animals. Previous studies in Superb Fairywrens (Malurus cyaneus) showed that mothers are …

Personality syndromes in animals may have adaptive benefits for survival. For example,
while engaging in predator deterrence, reactive individuals tend to prioritise their own …

Female song is an ancestral trait in songbirds, yet extant females generally sing less than
males. Here, we examine sex differences in the predation cost of singing behaviour. The …

Variation in the acoustic structure of alarm signals has mainly been viewed as coding
information about the type of predator or the level of threat posed by the predator. Alarm …

Early environmental enrichment improves postnatal cognition in animals and humans. Here,
we examined the effects of the prenatal acoustic environment (parental song rate) on …