Download or read book The Zebra Finch written by Richard A. Zann and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1996 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Australian Zebra Finch is widely used by researchers and teachers in many scientific disciplines where it is the preferred subject for investigations ranging from anatomy and physiology to behavioural development and evolutionary ecology. This monograph is the first to synthesize the information on this colourful species that has accumulated during the past thirty years. It summarizes and integrates much of the laboratory work and places it in the context of the biology of the animals in the wild, with an emphasis on behaviour and ecology. This leads to a detailed understanding of Zebra Finch adaptations and life history that will further enhance the value of the species for researchers and students in behaviour, ecology, and other fields. Aviculturists who keep these attractive birds will also find much of interest in this book.
Download or read book Zebra Finches written by Hans J. Martin and published by B.E.S. Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Information and advice to help you take good care of your Zebra Finch."--Back cover.
Download or read book Zebra Finches in Australia written by Harry Doven and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Zebra Finch written by Matthew Vriends and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-05-05 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zebra finches are very close to wild birds in their behaviors, and the natural history and behavior of these birds is discussed in detail. Zebra finches mate for life and do not do well living alone, so most often they are purchased in pairs. The book takes this into consideration right from the start, and all care and handling information is offered for two or more birds. This includes detailed information on breeding, which is extremely popular with owners of exotic finches. Proper housing, routine care, and in-depth information on nutrition and feeding are included. Possible health problems are also covered. A Resource section provides information on birds clubs, books and magazines and useful Internet sites.
Download or read book Guide to Owning a Zebra Finch written by Rod Fischer and published by TFH Publications. This book was released on 1997 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exciting and beautifully photographed Zebra Finch book contains valuable and authoritative information in a sensible and easy-to-read style.
Download or read book Keeping and Breeding Zebra Finches written by Chris Blackwell and published by Blandford. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Behavioral Biology of Laboratory Animals written by Kristine Coleman and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2021-08-11 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHOICE Highly Recommended title, 2022! This 30-chapter volume informs students and professionals about the behavioral biology of animals commonly housed in laboratory and other captive settings. Each species evolved under specific environmental conditions, resulting in unique behavioral patterns, many of which are maintained in captivity even after generations of breeding. Understanding natural behavior is therefore a critical part of modern animal care practices. The descriptions, data, guidance, resources, and recommendations in this book will help the reader understand their animals better, refine the care and treatment that they receive, and improve the well-being, welfare, and wellness of their animals. The book is divided into three sections, all focusing on aspects of the behavioral biology of animals found in laboratories and related research settings. After five introductory chapters, 25 chapters are dedicated to specific taxonomic groups (including mice, zebrafish, zebra finches, reptiles, macaques) while a concluding section of ethograms provides a centralized resource for those interested in understanding, and potentially quantifying, animal behavior. The Behavioral Biology of Laboratory Animals will provide anyone working in maintenance, care, and/or research programs that involve laboratory animals with information about the way the animals live in the wild, and the way that they should live in captive research settings. Many of the guidelines and recommendations will also be valuable to those managing and working with animals in other environments, including zoological parks, aquaria, and sanctuaries.
Download or read book Zebra Finch Zebra Finches as Pets Zebra Finches Keeping Care Pros and Cons Housing Diet and Health written by Roger Rodendale and published by Imb Publishing Zebra Finch. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zebra finches are amongst the most popular pet birds that are readily available. If you are looking for a no fuss pet, the Zebra finch may be a perfect option for you. These birds can be tamed very well, albeit not easily. Once you have formed a bond with your bird, be prepared for a lot of singing and physical interaction. These birds are extremely entertaining and make wonderful pets. Care for Zebra finches is pretty straight forward. If you provide them with a good housing facility and the right diet, they will stay pretty much healthy. With this book, you will learn everything about the Zebra finch from the feeding requirements, tips to keep them active and physically fit, breeding these birds, the common health problems they may face and a lot more. Covered in this book: -Bonding activities -Buying -Care -Feeding -Habitat -Health -Housing -Pros and Cons -Travelling -Varieties ....and much more
Download or read book Grassfinches in Australia written by Mark Shephard OAM and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is not surprising that Australian grassfinches are highly popular with ornithologists and aviculturists, for included among the species are one of the most beautiful of all birds – the Gouldian Finch Erythrura gouldiae – and one of the most familiar cagebirds – the Zebra Finch Taeniopygia guttata. Despite a scarcity in published works on finches, interest in the species is growing, leading to a dramatic advancement in our knowledge of many species. For example, we have gained new information from field observations carried out on little-known species, including the Blue-faced Parrot-Finch Erythrura trichroa and the Red-eared Firetail Stagonopleura oculata. Significant advances in taxonomic research, largely as a consequence of the development and refinement of biochemical analyses, often involving DNA-DNA hybridisation, have given us a new insight into relationships among species, with some unexpected alliances being determined. Additionally, dramatic changes have taken place in avicultural practices, and in virtually all countries aviculture has taken on a new professional approach, with the most notable results being increased productivity and success with a wider variety of species. After a lapse of almost half a century since publication of Klaus Immelmann’s eminent work on finches, based on extensive field studies, the time has come for a new examination of Australian grassfinches. In Grassfinches in Australia, Joseph Forshaw, Mark Shephard and Anthony Pridham have summarised our present knowledge of each species, and have given readers a visual appreciation of the birds in their natural habitats and in aviculture. The resulting combination of superb artwork and scientifically accurate text ensures that this volume will become the standard reference work on Australian grassfinches. In addition to enabling aviculturists to know more about these finches in the wild as a guide to their own husbandry techniques, detailed information on current management practices for all species in captivity is provided. The book also includes colour plates depicting some of the more common mutations held in Australian and overseas collections.
Download or read book Finches For Dummies written by Nikki Moustaki and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2007-04-30 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friendly advice on proper finch care Of all the birds kept as pets-16.5 million in American homes-none are as widely diversified as finches, which hail from nearly every corner of the globe. This fun, practical guide provides finch owners and those deciding if they want to bring a finch into their home with expert guidance in raising this delightful bird. It covers choosing the right species of finch, health care, housing and supplies, feeding, training, and how to have fun and maintain the best relationship with a finch.
Download or read book Zebra Finch written by Richard Donald and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-07-17 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zebra finches are amongst the most popular pet birds that are readily available. If you are looking for a no fuss pet, the Zebra finch may be a perfect option for you. These birds can be tamed very well, albeit not easily. Once you have formed a bond with your bird, be prepared for a lot of singing and physical interaction. These birds are extremely entertaining and make wonderful pets. Care for Zebra finches is pretty straight forward. If you provide them with a good housing facility and the right diet, they will stay pretty much healthy. With this book, you will learn everything about the Zebra finch from the feeding requirements, tips to keep them active and physically fit, breeding these birds, the common health problems they may face and a lot more.
Download or read book Finches As Pets written by GODFREY. EVANS and published by GMB Publishing, Limited. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Foreign Finches in Captivity written by Arthur Gardiner Butler and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains descriptions and illustrations of several Australian finches (p. 138-146, 151-156, 164-183, 188-201, 232-235).
Download or read book Zippy Zebra Finch written by Susannah McFarlane and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zoe is a very zippy zebra finch. Join Zoe and her friends as they zoom from zero to a zillion!
Download or read book The Neuroethology of Birdsong written by Jon T. Sakata and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-03-19 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vocal signals are central for social communication across a wide range of vertebrate species; consequently, it is critical to understand the mechanisms underlying the learning, control, and evolution of vocal communication. Songbirds are at the forefront of research into such neural mechanisms. Indeed, songbirds provide a particularly important model system for this endeavor because of the many parallels between birdsong and human speech. Specifically, (1) songbirds are one of the few vertebrate species that, like humans, learn their vocal signals during development, (2) the processes of song learning and control in songbirds shares many parallels with the process of speech acquisition in humans, and (3) there exist deep homologies between the circuits for the learning, control, and processing of vocal signals across songbirds and humans. In addition, because of the diversity of songbirds and song learning strategies, songbirds offer a powerful model system to use the comparative method to reveal mechanisms underlying the evolution of song learning and production. Taken together, research on songbirds can not only reveal general principles underlying vertebrate vocal communication but can also provide insight into potential mechanisms underlying the learning, control, and processing of speech. This volume will cover a range of topics in birdsong spanning multiple level of analysis. Chapters will be authored by the world’s leading experts on birdsong and will provide comprehensive reviews of the processes underlying song learning, of the neural circuits for song learning and control as well as for the extraction and processing of song information, of the selection pressures underlying song evolution, and of genetic and molecular mechanisms underlying the learning and evolution of song. The primary goals of this volume are to provide comprehensive, integrative, and comparative perspectives on birdsong and to underscore the importance of birdsong to biomedical research, evolutionary biology, and behavioral, systems, and computational neuroscience.The target audience of this volume will be graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and established academics and neuroscientists who are interested in mechanisms of communication from an integrative and comparative perspective. The volume is intended to function as a high-profile and contemporary reference on current work related to the learning, control, processing, and evolution of birdsong. This volume will have broad appeal to comparative and sensory biologists, neurophysiologists, and behavioral, systems, and cognitive neuroscientists who attend meetings such as the Society for Neuroscience, the International Society for Neuroethology, and the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology. Because of the relevance of birdsong research to understanding human speech, it is likely that the volume will also be of interest to speech researchers and clinicians researching communication, motor, and sensory processing disorders.
Download or read book The Complete Book of Finches written by Matthew M. Vriends and published by Howell Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour written by Mike Hansell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2000-08-31 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bird Nests and Construction Behaviour provides a broad view of our understanding of the biology of the nests, bowers and tools made by birds. It illustrates how, among vertebrates, the building abilities of birds are more impressive and consistent than for any other builders other than ourselves, yet birds seem to require no special equipment, and use quite uncomplicated behaviour. In doing so, the book raises general issues in the field of behavioural ecology including the costs of reproduction, sexual selection and the organisation and complexity of behaviour. Written for students and researchers of animal behaviour, behavioural ecology and ornithology, it will nevertheless make fascinating reading for architects and engineers interested in understanding how structures are created by animals.
