... in the subsequent operant discrimination task. We monitored the behaviour and the mass of the birds in order to make sure that both the subject and the demonstrator gained regular access to the feeder (if not, we manually opened the feeder regularly for short periods of time). Just after having been...

... ), the song motif is composed of a few syllables repeated in a fixed sequential order and song bouts include several repetitions of the motif. Here, we used an operant discrimination task, the GO/NOGO procedure, to show that zebra finches are capable of individual vocal recognition even if the bird has...