The Gouldian Finch Society will honour one of South Africa’s avicultural pioneers with a memorial show and auction in Alberton, celebrating excellence, mentorship and the enduring passion for ...

Birdsong, like human speech, is learned via auditory experience during a developmentally restricted sensitive period. Within projection neurons of two avian forebrain nuclei, NMDA receptor-mediated ...

Male (left) and female (right) zebra finches. The orange feathers displayed by the male are colored by the pigment pheomelanin, which is also present in human skin and red hair. Pheomelanin is ...

Blue Finch Films has picked up international sales rights to 'Bowels of Hell,' a horror film set to make its world premiere ...

A zorse refers to a hybrid horse, which is a cross of a male zebra stallion and a female horse mare. It is also called a zebrose, zebrula or zebra mule because although it has attributes of both ...

On a fine gray afternoon in late October, I came across an impressive cone midden beneath a towering red spruce. While it was surely the work of an industrious squirrel — perhaps a family, given the ...

Below, we've compiled a list of weird animal behaviors we've amassed from the wild world web as well as a related thread on ...

Birdsong is a communicative process between birds associated with courtship and mating. Birdsong is considered to be distinct from bird calls, which are shorter than birdsong and attributed with ...

Sometimes called tiger-striped dogs, these brindle breeds have some of the most uniquely colored coats in all the animal kingdom A dog’s coat is one of its most striking features, whether it’s ...