Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends
10,000 Birds
APRIL 21, 2011
These bird songs have two aspects, and I oversimplify but not excessively so: A genetically inherited template, usually specific to the song-producing sex, and a learned song that consists of the template shaped by experience as a developing bird hears the adult version of its own song. The top two are individuals with normal song.
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