Zebra Finch (IMAGE)

University of Utah

Zebra Finch

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University of Utah scientists studied the colorful zebra finch to learn more about the factors that allow the songbirds to sing over a wide range of frequencies while females utter only brief lower-frequency calls. They found that the males' more powerful vocal muscles were much more important than the pressure of air within the lungs.

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Nataliia Verzhbitskiy, University of Utah.

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