Baby birds babble just like human babies learning to talk

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WASHINGTON - The happy babbling that entertains parents as their babies try to mimic speech turns out to have a parallel in the ****** world. Baby birds babble away before mastering their adult song, researchers report in Friday's edition of the journal Science.


Michale S. Fee and colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology studied the brains of baby zebra finches as the little birds learned the unique song they would use as adults.

The baby birds practiced making sounds incessantly, the team reports in Friday's edition of the journal Science.


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