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Bird-Babble to Song Takes Surprising Route

posted May 6, 2008 - 12:33am
Bird-Babble to Song Takes Surprising Route

Songbirds have long been studied for insight into how the brain learns motor tasks in a bird’s case, singing its characteristic song. Juvenile birds babble in screechy random bursts before they eventually develop a tonally and rhythmically precise song.


Website: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/06/science/06obsong...


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