Young songbirds draw the source material for their learned songs from parents, peers, and
unrelated adults, as well as from innovation. These learned songs are used for intraspecific …

Because of the diverging needs of individuals, group life can lead to disputes and
competition, but it also has many advantages, such as reduced predation risk, information …

Social communication often involves vocal learning, whereby young animals learn their
vocalizations early in life by imitating the sounds of adults. In animals that learn their …

Highlights•Animal vocal learning often involves a period of overproduction and attrition.•We
show young Savannah sparrows sing multiple songs but retain only one as …

Birds are our best models to understand vocal learning–a vocal production ability guided by
auditory feedback, which includes human language. Among all vocal learners, songbirds …

Interactive communication occurs when two or more individuals reciprocally exchange
signals. It is widespread and common in humans, non-human animals, and even machines …

Laboratory studies have revealed that social factors are key in bird-song learning.
Nevertheless, little is known about how or why birds choose the songs they do learn from the …

Birds produce different types of sounds in different contexts such as begging for food in
youngsters, alerting to a danger, defending a territory or attracting a sexual partner. About …

Vocal communication is an essential behaviour for many animals, allowing them to
recognise, assess and coordinate with one another. Some social animals also benefit from …

In the current traditional vocal music and opera art fusion process, trains talents whose has
professional, high level of traditional vocal music teaching and the integration of opera …