Birdsong provides a fascinating system to study both behavioral and neural plasticity.
Oscine songbirds learn to sing, exhibiting behavioral plasticity both during and after the …

Develo** animals display a tremendous ability to change the course of their
developmental path in response to the environment they experience, a concept referred to …

Cultural and genetic inheritance combine to enable rapid changes in trait expression, but
their relative importance in determining trait expression across generations is not clear …

Early developmental nutrition profoundly influences phenotypic trajectories and affects adult
morphology, physiology, behaviour, longevity and fitness across taxa. During early life, the …

The developmental environment can affect the expression of sexually selected traits in
adulthood. The physiological mechanisms that modulate such effects remain a matter of …

Despite popular culture's promotion of the elephant's ability to “never forget,” there is
remarkably limited empirical research on the memory capacities of any living elephant …

Environmental influences experienced by organisms are known to influence the phenotype
of offspring through transgenerational plasticity or parental effects, and recent studies have …

For many animal species, cognitive traits are important for fitness. Such traits may be
especially important in rapidly changing environments, where innovation and learning about …

Hormones mediate the expression of life history traits—phenotypic traits that contribute to
lifetime fitness (ie, reproductive timing, growth rate, number and size of offspring). The …

Songbirds are one of a few examples of animals (including humans) that require hearing a
model of species-typical vocalizations in order to accurately learn to sing themselves. To …