The zebra finch bird is soft gray, with red eyes, "tear drop" markings (small black lines running straight down under each eye), and bright orange legs and beak. The male zebra finch has a deeper reddish-orange beak, while the female's beak tends to have a lighter orange color. The ...
Can a zebra finch live alone? Since the zebra finch is highly social, it’s ideal to house multiple birds together. How long do zebra finches live as pets? In captivity, the zebra finch can live five years or more. The maximum lifespan is around 12 to 15 years. What do zebra finches...
The zebra finch life span varies based on where the bird lives. Birds in the wild have to face the danger of predators and successfully search for food to survive. For this reason, wild zebra finches generally only live two or three years. However, birds in human care with unlimited access...
Breeding among zebra finches usually occurs during rainy seasons. The male finch mates with a female finch. The female then lays 4 to 6 eggs in a nest. Hatching takes place after two weeks. The average fledging period among zebra finches is three weeks. Lifespan Wild zebra finches have an ...
On the fifth day, each individual was individually habituated to the behavioural testing cage for 1 h, with sounds from an unfamiliar zebra finch colony playing in the background. Novel environment The novel environment was a room (200 × 150 cm and 200 cm high) in which were three ...
Efforts to address this problem are underway, and the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) will be the first passerine to have its genome sequenced. Here we describe a bioinformatic analysis of zebra finch expressed sequence tag (EST) Genbank entries. Results A total of 48,862 ESTs were ...
Neonatal nutrition, adult antioxidant defences and sexual attractiveness in the zebra finch Early nutrition has recently been shown to have pervasive, downstream effects on adult life-history parameters including lifespan, but the underlying mecha... JD Blount,NB Metcalfe,KE Arnold,... - 《...
Two subspecies of zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata castanotis and T. g. guttata are native to Australia and the Lesser Sunda Islands, respectively. The Australian subspecies has been domesticated and is now an important model system for research. Both the Lesser Sundan subspecies and domesticated Au...
We tested whether BMR was repeatable over a considerable time of the lifespan of a small passerine bird: the zebra finch Taeniopygia guttata. BMR was measured six times over a 2.5 year period in captive zebra finches. BMR residuals showed significant repeatabilities over a short (1.5 months) ...
Sex and age differences in brain-derived neurotrophic factor and vimentin in the zebra finch song system: Relationships to newly generated cells 喜欢 0 阅读量: 19 作者:Tang,P Yu,Wade,Juli 摘要: The neural song circuit is enhanced in male compar 关键词:...