To Kill A Mockingbird: Vocal Learning In Songbirds

Vocal Learning in songbirds is a form of communication to share information and the problem can be that it is difficult to know what is being communicated. What kind of information is being conveyed and it means? There is a distinct difference between songs and calls, specialized brain mechanisms for producing their vocalization mechanisms as well. Songs are very elaborate and learned by males for produced for mate attraction and defense announcement. Calls are simpler and innately learned vocal sounds produced by both male and females for the announcement of predators and flock coordination. Syllables being a letter, like H elements being the tree sticks producing a song. We gather calls from chickadees and print them to sort and analyze them …show more content…
The developmental stress of the brain volume. 1st graph: HVC; high vocal centre, one of the brain regions that is round in the centre; high vocal centre is region where all incoming sounds go to; there are synapses through and will go through this to other regions of the brain 3rd: telencephalon; whole front of the brain if deprived of nutrition during sensitive period, they don't have the same sounding songs as caregivers; brain areas actually show less volume overall! Less brain region dedicated to the task of learning species specific sounds. In conclusion, bird song is a complicated system that comes together to produce what we all know to recognize as bird song in our everyday