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Nightingales are great singers, but how well can they hit the tone? 🎶 Vallentin Lab found that nightingales can imitate the pitch of whistles in real time! Read more: bi.mpg.de/news/2023-07-v…

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For the first time in Africa, as part of our long-term collaboration with Vallentin Lab at the Max Planck Institute, we fitted an accelerometer to a wintering Nightingale. The accelerometer will be removed and data used to study winter singing activity and song structure.

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How do birds learn their distinctive songs? A new review by Vallentin Lab gives a comprehensive overview of the different sensory and neural mechanisms that influence song learning and vocal communication in a wide range of songbirds: doi.org/10.1016/j.conb… Art by julia kuhl at somedonkey.bsky.social

🐦🐦🐦Disinhibition enables vocal repertoire expansion after a critical period in birds🐦🐦🐦 Fabian Heim Ezequiel Mendoza Avani Vallentin Lab biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

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KBO staff are proud to be working once again with the Vallentin Lab of The Max Planck Institute. We are supporting their long-term research by deploying accelerometers onto breeding male Nightingales in the Brandenburg area.

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Reactivate lost learning abilities in old age? New study by Vallentin Lab shows how adult zebra finches can learn new songs beyond their critical period by manipulating inhibitory neurons! Find out more: bi.mpg.de/news/2024-09-v… Art by julia kuhl at somedonkey.bsky.social

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Really excited to share the latest preprint from my lab Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Work done by Emily, a fantastic graduate student, in collaboration with Tony Zador. So what is this paper about?