Watch this tear-jerking clip of an abandoned baby zebra being rescued by a herd, and then read about zebra relationship dynamics.

What Bird Brains Can Teach Us About Learning a New Skill Learn how Zebra finches' natural drive to learn their songs makes them masters of their craft — and what we can learn from their process.

Tracking song learning with machine learning To investigate how young zebra finches refine their songs, researchers placed male juveniles in soundproof chambers where they could practice without ...

Male zebra finches growing up without mothers prefer to bond with each other in adulthood, a new study shows, and sexual imprinting may explain why.

In the world of zebra finches, males sing, and females were thought to just listen. But a new study by Daniela Vallentin at ...

A new study on songbirds sheds light on the power of social interaction to facilitate learning, insights that potentially ...

Mylene finds that when temperatures rise, zebra finches can sing to their unhatched eggs.

Songbirds may need to practise singing every day to maintain the quality of their performance. Male zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) learn a unique song, usually from their father, in the first ...

Male zebra finches learn their song by imitating conspecifics. To stand out in the crowd, each male develops its own unique song. Because of this individual-specific song, it was long assumed that ...