Female Bengalese finches have lifelong preference for their father’s song to other birds’

Daddies’ girls? Female Bengalese finches prefer their father’s song to that of other birds throughout their lives – while sons lose this preference as they grow up.

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Article Title: Sex differences in the development and expression of a preference for familiar vocal signals in songbirds

Funding: This work was supported by MEXT/JSPS KAKENHI Grant, Numbers 17H06380 to KO & 17J07023 to TGF. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. (https://www.jsps.go.jp/index.html)

Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Article URL: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0243811