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    • Black Tufted-Ear Marmosets
    • Brown Anoles
    • Cichlid Fish
    • DNA Microarray
    • Granule Cell Layer
    • Green Anole Display
    • Hamster Actogram
    • Midshipman Fish
    • Mother Rat
    • Neural Plasticity
    • Prairie Voles
    • Rhesus Macaque
    • Roughskin Newts
    • Sparrow Singing
    • Striped Mice
    • Tagged Honeybees
    • Vasotocin Neurons
    • Zebra Finches

A juvenile zebra finch (black beak) with its parents (right) and two other adult males.

Zebra finches are highly social, living in gregarious flocks with strong pair bonds between mates and shared parental care. The species is valuable for several kinds of research carried out by SBN members. Both hormones and social learning contribute to the development of adult social behavior.

Photo by Elizabeth Adkins-Regan