Australia’s critically endangered regent honeyeaters learned their traditional song, which has vanished from the wild, with 42% succeeding through live tutoring in small groups |
Australia’s critically endangered regent honeyeater has lost its traditional song in the wild as its population has declined. A study found that researchers taught captive-bred young males to sing the traditional wild song using live adult tutors. By the end of the study, the experiment helped 42% of the male zoo population learn songs that…
