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Culturally Transmitted Patterns of Vocal Behavior in Sparrows
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Male white-crowned sparrows have song "dialects," acquired in about the first 100 days of life by learning from older males. In the laboratory an alien white-crowned sparrow dialect can be taught. Once the song is established further acoustical experience does not change the pattern. White-crowned sparrows do not copy recorded songs of other sparrow species presented under similar conditions.
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“Although Darwin knew that many songbirds must be exposed to conspecific song in order to sing properly themselves, it wasn’t until the 1960s that scientists began a detailed investigation of their vocal learning ability (Marler and Tamura, 1964).”
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- Authors
- Marler, P., & Tamura, M.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1964-12-11
- Volume
- 146
- Issue
- 3650
- Pages
- 1483-1486
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W1984063991
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- 586
- References
- 0
- FWCI
- 5.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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