What birds can teach us about social learning

What birds can teach us about social learning

How does a bird learn its birdsong? Tomoko Fujii and Masashi Tanaka, from Waseda University, explored what drives a zebra finch to approach and imitate other zebra finches to learn its birdsong in a new JNeurosci paper.

How does a bird learn its bird song? Researchers from Japan have investigated what moves zebra finches to approach their peers and imitate them in order to learn their bird song.