Singing To Females Makes Male Birds’ Brains Happy
Oct 3rd 2008Drug InformationBiology
The melodious singing of birds has been long appreciated by humans, and has often been thought to reflect a particularly positive emotional state of the singer. In a new study published in the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE on October 1, researchers at the RIKEN Brain Science Institute in Japan have demonstrated that this can be true. When male birds sang to attract females, specific “reward” areas of their brain were strongly activated.
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