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News Release 11-236

Bird Song Yields a New Understanding of Cooperation

A bird duet springs forth from each bird's knowledge of the entire song

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Illustration showing male and female wrens singing.

The researchers were surprised to find that the brains of both birds had a record of the complete duet--a performance that neither bird can do by itself.

Credit: Zina Deretsky, National Science Foundation


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Cover of the November 4, 2011 issue of the journal Science.

The researchers' work is described in the November 4, 2011 issue of the journal Science.

Credit: Copyright AAAS 2011


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