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This project investigates how zebra finches construct their nests, challenging the idea that nest building is purely instinctive. It explores the cognitive and neurobiological processes involved, focusing on the role of sex hormones and brain structures like the cerebellum in this essential reproductive behavior.
Bird nests may be the most familiar of the animal-made objects, but still we don't know much about how birds actually make them.
Using zebra finches as a model system, Healy and Meddle have overturned the folk wisdom that bird nests are the results of an instinctive behaviour, showing that birds learn about the physical nature of the world when building.
Using the immediate early gene (IEG) c-Fos, a marker of neuronal activity, they have also begun to identify the key neuronal structures active…
THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS
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