From fiddler crabs to humans, animals perform repetitive displays showing neuromotor skill
and vigour. Consistent repetition of identical notes (vocal consistency) facilitates the …

In species with mutual mate choice, we should expect adaptive signaling in both sexes.
However, the role of female sexual signals is generally understudied. A case in point is …

Sporting a mix of blue, yellow, white, green and black, the unmistakable Blue Tit reflects the
colours of a planet affected by a burgeoning human population. Fortunately, Blue Tits are …

Investigations on bird vocalizations have largely focused on males. Female vocalizations
are widespread in birds but few studies have investigated female vocal characteristics …

Air-borne chemicals are highly abundant sensory cues and their use in navigation might be
one of the major evolutionary mechanisms explaining the development of olfaction in …

Some Australian native birds become childhood sweethearts and court for years before they
get'married'. Others divorce because of personality clashes and different skill levels. Many …

A flurry of recent studies has established that in songbirds, song production by both sexes is
both the norm and the ancestral state, overturning traditional assumptions that song is the …

The blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) is an important avian model in evolutionary ecology (>
20,000 published scientific studies). Song, like in other songbird species, is generally …

Social learning gives rise to culture, which is defined as socially learned behaviors that are
shared among members of a community and persist over generations. Song of the …