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Sing Me Something Smart Sunday, August 17, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Biology
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When shopping for a mate, female zebra finches might choose males with the sweetest song because singing ability advertises intellectual prowess. Neeltje Boogert of McGill University in Montreal, found that the males who sang the most complex melodies were also quicker at solving a problem to find food. Boogert presented her research on 11 August at the International Behavioral Ecology Congress at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. (source: nature.com)
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