Long-term effects of prenatal sound experience on songbird behavior and their relation to song learning

Katsis, Andrew C.; Buchanan, Katherine L.; Kleindorfer, Sonia; Mariette, Mylène M.

doi:10.1007/s00265-020-02939-5

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“…Possibly the most novel implication of this study is the finding that offspring of older males were exposed to a richer acoustic neighborhood than offspring of younger males. How such an acoustic neighborhood with more heterospecific singing birds might influence neural development (Rivera et al 2019 ; Schroeder and Remage-Healey 2021 ), gene expression (Antonson et al 2021 ), tutor preference (Williams 1990 ), attention (Soha and Marler 2000 ; Chen et al 2016 ), social learning strategy (Farine et al 2015 ) or other vocal production learning pathways (Katsis et al 2018 , 2021 ; Mariette et al 2021 ) remains to be explored. Darwin’s finches are capable of species recognition of song (Ratcliffe and Grant 1995 ), with reduced response to experimental broadcast of local song versus heterospecific song or foreign dialects (Colombelli-Négrel and Kleindorfer 2021 ).…”

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Age effects in Darwin’s finches: older males build more concealed nests in areas with more heterospecific singing neighbors

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Adreani,

Colombelli-Négrel

et al. 2023

J Ornithol

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Nesting success tends to increase with age in birds, in part because older birds select more concealed nest sites based on experience and/or an assessment of prevailing predation risk. In general, greater plant diversity is associated with more biodiversity and more vegetation cover. Here, we ask if older Darwin’s finch males nest in areas with greater vegetation cover and if these nest sites also have greater avian species diversity assessed using song. We compared patterns in Darwin’s Small Tree Finch (Camarhynchus parvulus) and Darwin’s Small Ground Finch (Geospiza fuliginosa) as males build the nest in both systems. We measured vegetation cover, nesting height, and con- vs. heterospecific songs per minute at 55 nests (22 C. parvulus, 33 G. fuliginosa). As expected, in both species, older males built nests in areas with more vegetation cover and these nests had less predation. A novel finding is that nests of older males also had more heterospecific singing neighbors. Future research could test whether older males outcompete younger males for access to preferred nest sites that are more concealed and sustain a greater local biodiversity. The findings also raise questions about the ontogenetic and fitness consequences of different acoustical experiences for developing nestlings inside the nest.

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Age effects in Darwin’s finches: older males build more concealed nests in areas with more heterospecific singing neighbors

Huge,

Adreani,

Colombelli-Négrel

et al. 2023

J Ornithol

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“…Although they can show physiological flexibility during heatwaves in the wild (Cooper, Hurley, Deviche, & Griffith, 2020), zebra finches are subject to multiple fitness consequences from extreme heat events. Namely, at high temperatures close to or above the upper critical temperature of TNZ, zebra finches experience a reduction in sperm quality (Hurley et al, 2018), forage less often and are less social (Funghi et al, 2019), change their egg morphology (Hoffman et al, 2021), and sing more to their embryos, which changes how nestlings grow and behave (Katsis et al, 2021; Mariette & Buchanan, 2016; Pessato et al, 2020). Importantly, domesticated zebra finches do not differ from wild birds in their thermal physiology (Calder, 1964; Marschall & Prinzinger, 1991), making them an excellent model for understanding responses to thermal challenges.…”

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How thermal challenges change gene regulation in the songbird brain and gonad: Implications for sexual selection in our changing world

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Life on Earth is currently experiencing the highest temperatures in recorded history (Wallace-Wells, 2020). Whereas extreme heat anomalies were limited to <1% of the Earth's surface in the past, extreme events now cover more than 10% of the land area (Hansen et al., 2012). Despite this global challenge, we know relatively little about the impact of heat waves on terrestrial animal populations (Stillman, 2019). Furthermore, the effects of heat on behaviour and physiology are far less well understood in endotherms than

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“…The copyright holder for this preprint (which this version posted May 6, 2024. ; https://doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.03.592470 doi: bioRxiv preprint temperatures Buchanan, 2016, 2019;Katsis et al, 2018Katsis et al, , 2021Katsis et al, , 2023Mariette et al, 2018;Pessato et al, 2020;Udino et al, 2021;Udino and Mariette, 2022). The presence of such parent-to-embryo communication via the auditory modality crucially requires that zebra finch embryos can detect these sound stimuli in the egg.…”

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Postnatal hearing development limits early parent-to-offspring vocal communication and gates sensorimotor learning in the zebra finch

Anttonen,

Christensen-Dalsgaard,

Elemans

2024

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Hearing is critical for vocal communication, and in birds its onset is linked to egg hatching. Hearing develops after hatching in early hatching (altricial) species, while already functional in the egg in later hatching (precocial) species. Recent work suggests that altricial zebra finches exhibit parent-to-embryo acoustic communication, requiring functional, high-frequency hearing already in the egg. Yet, the early postnatal development of their auditory sensitivity remains unknown. By measuring hearing and vibration-detection capacity during postnatal development in zebra finches, we show that zebra finch hatchlings are deaf even to loud, broadband sounds. Auditory nerve sensitivity develops gradually in a low-to-high frequency manner. Auditory nerve responses show adult-like properties only after 20 days from hatching. Our data provide evidence against the plausibility of early parent-to-offspring acoustic communication in zebra finches and suggest that hearing functionality may set the onset of vocal learning in zebra finches.

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Long-term effects of prenatal sound experience on songbird behavior and their relation to song learning

Cited by 17 publications

References 83 publications

Age effects in Darwin’s finches: older males build more concealed nests in areas with more heterospecific singing neighbors

Age effects in Darwin’s finches: older males build more concealed nests in areas with more heterospecific singing neighbors

How thermal challenges change gene regulation in the songbird brain and gonad: Implications for sexual selection in our changing world

Postnatal hearing development limits early parent-to-offspring vocal communication and gates sensorimotor learning in the zebra finch

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