Babble to tweet

Babbling helps zebra finches learn to sing

New Scientist vol 198 no 2655,
May 10 2008 p17

Babbling helps zebra finches learn to sing, and helps young finches to try out acoustic ranges. The part of the brain involved in babbling is different from the part that controls mouth muscles used by birds when they sing. Massachussets Institute of Technology's Michale Fee led a team which has discovered that birds lacking the part in their brains controlling mouth muscles do not sing, but babble.
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