Zebra finches are an important model for vocal learning and avian mate choice. The two are
contingent on each other: males' learned songs are addressed at females with learned …

This article is part of a Special Issue “Chemosignals and Reproduction”. Chemical cues
were probably the first cues ever used to communicate and are still ubiquitous among living …

Mate choice studies routinely assume female preferences for indicators of high quality in
males but rarely consider developmental causes of within-population variation in mating …

Although behavioural plasticity should be an advantage in a varying world, there is
increasing evidence for widespread stable individual differences in the behaviour of …

Immune defence is an incredibly complicated system, but to understand how it functions in
an ecological context is challenging. Our focus is to outline the diversity of ways to measure …

Today, the Zebra Finch is Australia's most studied bird and the focus of intensive multi-
million dollar research projects throughout the world. Here we briefly summarise the history …

There is a wealth of evidence for a lifespan penalty when environmental conditions
influence an individual's growth trajectory, such that growth rate is accelerated to attain a …

The zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a socially monogamous and colonial opportunistic
breeder with pronounced sexual differences in singing and plumage coloration. Its natural …

The developmental environment has strong and pervasive effects on animal phenotype.
Exposure to stress during development (in the form of elevated glucocorticoid hormones or …

Our understanding of fundamental organismal biology has been disproportionately
influenced by studies of a relatively small number of 'model'species extensively studied in …