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Patterns of call communication between group-housed zebra finches change during the breeding cycle.
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- Social familiarity strengthens neural and vocal responses to conspecific calls in zebra finches.PLoS computational biology · 2026Article
- Mountable miniature microphones to identify and assign mouse ultrasonic vocalizations.Cell reports methods · 2025Article
- Neural Activity During Call Production in the Female Zebra Finch Homolog of the Male Forebrain Song System.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
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- Disinhibition enables vocal repertoire expansion after a critical period.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The ecology of zebra finch song and its implications for vocal communication in multi-level societies.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2024Review
- callsync: An R package for alignment and analysis of multi-microphone animal recordings.Ecology and evolution · 2024Article
- A feedforward inhibitory premotor circuit for auditory-vocal interactions in zebra finches.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Reciprocal processes of sensory perception and social bonding: an integrated social-sensory framework of social behavior.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2022Review
- Differences in dopamine and opioid receptor ratios in the nucleus accumbens relate to physical contact and undirected song in pair-bonded zebra finches.Behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Quantifying song behavior in a free-living, light-weight, mobile bird using accelerometers.Ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Avian models for brain mechanisms underlying altered social behavior in autism.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Review
- A system for controlling vocal communication networks.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Neurotelemetry Reveals Putative Predictive Activity in HVC during Call-Based Vocal Communications in Zebra Finches.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2020Article
- Familiarity enhances moment-to-moment behavioral coordination in zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) dyads.Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) · 2020Article
- Inhibition within a premotor circuit controls the timing of vocal turn-taking in zebra finches.Nature communications · 2020Article
- What's in a Moment: What Can Be Learned About Pair Bonding From Studying Moment-To-Moment Behavioral Synchrony Between Partners?Frontiers in psychology · 2020Review
- Life-Stage Dependent Plasticity in the Auditory System of a Songbird Is Signal and Emitter-Specific.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
- Monogamy in a Moment: How do Brief Social Interactions Change Over Time in Pair-Bonded Zebra Finches (Integrative organismal biology (Oxford, England) · 2020Article
- Limiting parental interaction during vocal development affects acoustic call structure in marmoset monkeys.Science advances · 2018Article
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Abstract
Vocal signals such as calls play a crucial role for survival and successful reproduction, especially in group-living animals. However, call interactions and call dynamics within groups remain largely unexplored because their relation to relevant contexts or life-history stages could not be studied with individual-level resolution. Using on-bird microphone transmitters, we recorded the vocalisations of individual zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata) behaving freely in social groups, while females and males previously unknown to each other passed through different stages of the breeding cycle. As birds formed pairs and shifted their reproductive status, their call repertoire composition changed. The recordings revealed that calls occurred non-randomly in fine-tuned vocal interactions and decreased within groups while pair-specific patterns emerged. Call-type combinations of vocal interactions changed within pairs and were associated with successful egg-laying, highlighting a potential fitness relevance of calling dynamics in communication systems.
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