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    The zebra finches are two species of estrildid finch in the genus Taeniopygia found in Australia and Indonesia. They are seed-eaters that travel in large...
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    The Australian zebra finch (Taeniopygia castanotis) is the most common estrildid finch of Central Australia. It ranges over most of the continent, avoiding...
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    The Sunda zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a species of bird in the family Estrildidae. It is found in the Lesser Sundas. T. guttata sometimes serves...
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    also commonly studied zebra finch. Although the English language literature on aviculture called these birds as Bengali finch, the German aviculturist...
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  • Sheffield, and one of the study's authors reported that the eggs of zebra finches and chickens require multiple sperm, from 10 to hundreds of sperm, to...
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    Red-browed finches are common aviary birds. The red-browed finch will sometimes hybridise with the star finch, crimson finch, and zebra finch if kept together...
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    Estrildidae (redirect from Estrildid finch)
    Estrildidae, or estrildid finches, is a family of small seed-eating passerine birds of the Old World tropics and Australasia. They comprise species commonly...
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  • circuit in zebra finches may promote social learning of bird song from tutors. Their data shows that certain brain areas in juvenile zebra finches are excited...
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    arguably pentachromacy or higher Some species of birds, such as the zebra finch and the Columbidae, use the ultraviolet wavelength 300–400 nm specific...
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    more random pattern.[citation needed] A notable example in birds is the zebra finch. These birds have lateralised brain structures in the face of a common...
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  • display the same abilities. Within avian vocal learners, for example, zebra finch songs only contain strictly linear transitions that go through different...
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    louder peew, and the song is a soft fluting, which is somewhat like the zebra finch. Lithgow, New South Wales, Australia Gregory River, Queensland South-east...
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  • Hunter, F. M. (1988). "Extra-pair copulation and sperm competition in the zebra finch". Nature. 334 (6177): 60–62. Bibcode:1988Natur.334...60B. doi:10.1038/334060a0...
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    zebra finches, it has been shown to be expressed in astrocytes. It has also been shown to decrease apoptosis following brain injury in zebra finches....
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    was sequenced in 2004, and was followed in 2008 by the genome of the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). Such whole-genome sequencing projects allow for...
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    performance. Bonaparte et al. demonstrated that high-protein diets in zebra finches correlated with better associative learning. The researchers showed...
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    Intermediate hosts: Succinea putris Succinea lauta Omalonyx gayana Hosts: Birds Zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) – experimental Carus, C.G. (1835). "Beobachtung...
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    the genome had been sequenced for only two birds, the chicken and the zebra finch. As of 2022[update] the genomes of 542 species of birds had been completed...
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    Karlheinz (2015). "The calcified eggshell matrix proteome of a songbird, the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)". Proteome Sci. 13: 29. doi:10.1186/s12953-015-0086-1...
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  • and dependent on auditory feedback unlike adult songs. Adult zebra finches and Bengal finches, for example, need feedback to keep their songs stable, and...
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    In mice it differs from that of humans by three substitutions, and in zebra finch by seven amino acids. One of the two amino acid differences between human...
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  • of Zann's ornithological research was the zebra finch,. This work was synthesised in the 1996 book Zebra Finch: A Synthesis of Field and Laboratory Studies...
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    N.; Birkhead, T.R. (2008). "Parthenogenesis in a passerine bird, the Zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata". Ibis. 150 (1): 197–199. doi:10.1111/j.1474-919x...
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    memory, and brain development leading to whole genome sequencing of the zebra finch in 2010. His research has contributed to topics ranging from neurodegenerative...
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  • Australian swiftlet Australian tern Australian white ibis Australian zebra finch Ayacucho antpitta Ayacucho thistletail Ayeyarwady bulbul Ayres's hawk-eagle...
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    Eastern rock elephant shrew 129,000,000 Star-nosed mole 131,000,000 Zebra finch 131,000,000 Brain only African collared dove 139,271,000 Silvery mole-rat...
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  • (2002). "Respiratory Units of Motor Production and Song Imitation in the Zebra Finch". Journal of Neurobiology. 51 (2): 129–141. doi:10.1002/neu.10043. PMID 11932954...
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  • Brush bronzewing Pacific emerald dove White-headed pigeon Wonga pigeon Zebra finch Reptile Encounter Lyrebird Forest Larger Wetlands Aviary Flying Foxes...
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    dove is listed as near-threatened. Close-up of a captive bird Next to a zebra finch at a waterhole, Northern Territory, Australia The rufous inner vanes...
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    zebra finches, it was determined that those which were fed a lower quality diet laid eggs that were lighter and less nutrient-rich than those zebra finches...
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