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Balanced imitation sustains song culture in zebra finches

2020-09-24

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<title>Abstract</title> <p>Juvenile songbirds acquire songs by imitation, as humans do speech. Although imitation should drive convergence within a group and divergence through drift between groups, zebra finch songs sustain high diversity within a colony, but only mild variation across colonies. We investigated this phenomenon by analyzing vocal learning statistics in 160 tutor-pupil pairs from a large breeding...

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Literature Corpus work: 75a70a68-eb0f-5bfb-8227-4193fb983e54
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-80497/v1

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