Testosterone gets female canaries singing. Dutch researchers know how you can make a female canary sing using testosterone and the protein BDNF. Normally, female canaries don't sing, but with a few ...

Female canaries do not sing, yet their brains maintain the ability to sing throughout their lives. The study shows that inactive neuronal circuits can be activated when needed. Credit: MPI for ...

Female canaries adore a good old-fashioned love song that abides by rigid musical rules. Mature males always follow the rules. Curiously, young males will go against convention — and rock out to tunes ...

Female canaries do not sing, yet their brains maintain the ability to sing throughout their lives. The study shows that ...

Female songbirds choose mates based on their songs, and this study provides some insights into what aspects of song they use to identify a "quality" male When a female chooses a mate, she is looking ...

Young canary males can be tempted to sing songs that do not sound very canarylike, but as breeding season approaches, maturing canary males transform their biologically untested songs into ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Motor constraints on vocal production impose a trade-off between trill rate and frequency bandwidth within birdsong. We tested whether ...