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A Clever Strategy for Getting Rid of Testosterone

Should I stay or should I go: When do young fish leave their home?

Testosterone: a male and a female sex hormone

Underestimated female tutors: zebra finch mothers coach their sons to sing better

Teaching Old Birds New Tricks

Zebra finch chicks don't babble for no reason

Why young males have lower mating success

A brain circuit that spoils your appetite

Developmental crossroads in the brain

Insulin affects the recycling of cellular power plants

Visible calcium concentrations

Distributed workload in the fly brain

Vision in the brain – hardwired for action

Fluorescent Fruit Fly Brain

How tasty is the food? Ask your brain!

Mapping unknown territory

Passerine bird takes advantage of human settlements

Do hormone fluctuations increase survival probabilities?

Fly eyes: not as rigid as previously thought

Sweet sap, savory ants

A brain network for social attraction

Activating the indicator and performing a shoulder check – essential also for zebra finches

Citizens reveal: Pairs of rufous horneros have specific preferences when it comes to nest building

Hitchhiking through the nerve cell

The dark matter of the brain

Zebra finch males sing in dialects and females pay attention

One bird's joy is another bird's sorrow

Asymmetry as a building block of neuronal computations

The algebra of neurons