"Female canaries adore a good old-fashioned love song that abides by rigid musical rules. Mature males always follow the rules. Curiously, young males will go against convention — and rock out to tunes that would not impress the ladies.

But the feathery punks will shape up when it counts. In a study by scientists at Rockefeller University in New York City, young male canaries isolated in soundproof cages learned to imitate computer-generated compositions in the first half of their youth.

Come spring mating season, they changed their tune to the good old-fashioned canary love song — even though they’d never heard it before."

Listen to the calls at the link below.

This is truly neat.

Nice find t_b --- they were all nice ... liked the young canneries, and the whale songs the most... fun stuff ... thanks!

You're welcome, Df. My pleasure