Evangeline M Rose, Chelsea M Haakenson, Aliyah Patel, Shivika Gaind, Benjamin D Shank, Gregory F Ball
Birdsong is a relatively well-studied behavior, both due to its importance as a model for vocal production learning and as an intriguing complex social behavior. Until the last few decades, work on birdsong focused almost exclusively on males. However, it is now widely accepted that female song not only exists, but is fairly common throughout the oscine passerines. Despite this, and the large number of researchers who have begun exploring female song in the field, researchers in the lab have been slow to adopt model species with female song...
July 12, 2023: Journal of Comparative Physiology. A, Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology