Study: Woodpecker Drumming is Neurologically Similar to Songbird Vocalization

Study: Woodpecker Drumming is Neurologically Similar to Songbird Vocalization

A team of scientists from the United States and Denmark has found specialized pecking-related regions in the woodpecker forebrain that show characteristics that until now have only been associated with vocal learning in animals and language in humans; instead of being related to vocalization, activity in these brain regions is related to the characteristic tree […]

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Some hummingbird females display male coloring to avoid being harassed

Some hummingbird females display male coloring to avoid being harassed

Female hummingbirds sometimes look like the brightly colored males of their species. Researchers have long pondered the reason for this. Now, a study of hummingbirds in Panama suggests that sporting male-like feathers helps some females avoid intense bullying, researchers recently reported in Current Biology. To find out why this surprising pattern arises, researchers studied the […]

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