ArticleCurrent zoology2017
Exposure to dietary mercury alters cognition and behavior of zebra finches.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- What do zebra finches learn besides singing? Systematic mapping of the literature and presentation of an efficient associative learning test.Animal cognition · 2023Pooled it
- Differential effects of human density, environmental health, and group size on urban coyote detection, boldness, and exploration.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- An Integrative Approach to Assessing the Impact of Mercury (Hg) on Avian Behaviour: From Molecule to Movement.Journal of xenobiotics · 2025Review
- Fasting durations of Steller sea lion pups vary among subpopulations-evidence from two plasma metabolites.Conservation physiology · 2023Article
- Advances in neural organoid systems and their application in neurotoxicity testing of environmental chemicals.Genes and environment : the official journal of the Japanese Environmental Mutagen Society · 2021Review
- The impact of mercury on North American songbirds: effects, trends, and predictive factors.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2020Article
- The threat of global mercury pollution to bird migration: potential mechanisms and current evidence.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2020Article
- Food stress, but not experimental exposure to mercury, affects songbird preen oil composition.Ecotoxicology (London, England) · 2020Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Environmental stressors can negatively affect avian cognitive abilities, potentially reducing fitness, for example by altering response to predators, display to mates, or memory of locations of food. We expand on current knowledge by investigating the effects of dietary mercury, a ubiquitous environmental pollutant and known neurotoxin, on avian cognition. Zebra finches
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