Familiarity of an environment prevents song suppression in isolated zebra finches.

Despite the wide use of zebra finches as an animal model to study vocal learning and production, little is known about impacts on their welfare caused by routine experimental manipulations such as changing their social context. Here we conduct a post-hoc analysis of singing rate, an indicator of pos...

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Main Authors: Anja T Zai, Diana I Rodrigues, Anna E Stepien, Corinna Lorenz, Nicolas Giret, Iris Adam, Richard H R Hahnloser
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0307126