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Songbirds could help rehab research... |
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Written by globalbirdtrekkers.org
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Thursday, 03 March 2011 |
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ScienceDaily (Mar. 2, 2011) — "It takes songbirds and baseball pitchers thousands of repetitions -- a choreography of many muscle movements -- to develop an irresistible trill or a killer slider. Now, scientists have discovered that the male Bengalese finch uses a simple mental computation and an uncanny memory to create its near-perfect mate-catching melody -- a finding that could have implications for rehabilitating people with neuromuscular diseases and injuries..."
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