Teaching wild birds to sing a new tune
I think we are not fully appreciating the sensitive
periods in the development of our working dogs.
This study from the sciencedaily was done on teaching wild birds a new/different song.
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Like toddlers learning to speak, young birds learn to sing by listening to the voices of adults. Now, researchers reporting in Current Biology on October 4 have shown for the first time that they could teach young sparrows in the wild how to sing a new tune. The wild birds then passed the new songs on to the next generation.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181004143948.htm