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Female Bengalese finches have lifelong preference for their father's song to other birds'

01.20.21 | PLOS

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Female Bengalese finches prefer their father's song to that of other birds' lifelong
Fig 3. Results of the preference test (vocal behavior). (a, d) Population mean of the frequency proportion plotted against age of testing (the number of individuals of each sex at each age is specified in Table 3). (a) shows the results of calling, while (d) shows the results of singing (only males). A solid line with filled circles indicates female data, and a dashed line with filled triangles indicates male data. The proportion was calculated as the response frequency to the father's song (F) Credit: Fujii et al, PLOS ONE 2021 (CC-BY 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

Daddies' girls? Female Bengalese finches prefer their father's song to that of other birds throughout their lives - while sons lose this preference as they grow up.

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Article Title: Sex differences in the development and expression of a preference for familiar vocal signals in songbirds

Funding: This work was supported by MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI Grant, Numbers 17H06380 to KO & 17J07023 to TGF. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. ( https://www.jsps.go.jp/index.html )

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243811

PLOS ONE

10.1371/journal.pone.0243811

Keywords

Birds Data Analysis Sons

Article Information

Journal
PLOS ONE
DOI
10.1371/journal.pone.0243811

Contact Information

Tomoko Fujii
tomokofujii@g.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

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PLOS. (2021, January 20). Female Bengalese finches have lifelong preference for their father's song to other birds'. Brightsurf News. https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8J4PWK7L/female-bengalese-finches-have-lifelong-preference-for-their-fathers-song-to-other-birds.html
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"Female Bengalese finches have lifelong preference for their father's song to other birds'." Brightsurf News, Jan. 20 2021, https://www.brightsurf.com/news/8J4PWK7L/female-bengalese-finches-have-lifelong-preference-for-their-fathers-song-to-other-birds.html.