How to Use zebra finch in a Sentence

zebra finch

noun

• The zebra finch nailed it while the Ph.D. student couldn’t even come close!
  — National Geographic, 15 May 2016
• In a second study, the researchers found the same was true for zebra finches.
  — Marlene Cimons, Washington Post, 21 Apr. 2018
• Genes that are switched on when neurons fire tend to be more active in the left half of a courting zebra finch’s brain than the right half.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
• Just last month, fragments of hepatitis-like viruses were found hiding out in the genes of the zebra finch.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 19 Nov. 2010
• Researchers there built a system that can track the neural activity in the brain of a zebra finch and predict the song the bird is about to sing.
  — Aaron Pressman, Fortune, 12 Oct. 2017
• Another type of finch – the zebra finch – provided a clue.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 3 Oct. 2012
• The zebra finch, for example, is an Australian species of bird that learns unique songs passed down from its family.
  — Camille Bromley, The Atlantic, 18 July 2022
• The results from the zebra finch study tend to reflect similar studies in people.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2015
• In the wild, zebra finches typically live in colonies of between four and twenty birds.
  — Burkhard Bilger, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
• The findings were consistent with a 2017 study that researched the breeding of wild zebra finches across a range of temperatures.
  — Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 5 Dec. 2019
• The team found fewer receptors for mesotocin in key spots of the brain in species that were more territorial (less social) than the zebra finch—and more receptors in species that traveled in flocks.
  — Katherine Harmon Courage, Scientific American, 1 Sep. 2015
• This is true for zebra finches, waved albatrosses, tropic birds and juncos, too.
  — Washington Post, 12 Nov. 2019
• Animals like zebra finches, chinchillas, and macaques can be trained to do this, but until now only humans were shown to do this spontaneously.
  — Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 3 Dec. 2019
• Seals, for instance, may be deafened by the underwater rumble of shipping traffic, while stressful noise levels seem to cut short the life expectancy of zebra finches.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 22 Nov. 2019
• Other genes on the zebra finch GRC are comparable to genes that are known from mouse studies to be involved in early embryonic development.
  — Kate Wong, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2019
• China has approved 54 wild species for commercial breeding and sale, including American red foxes, Australian zebra finches and African ostriches.
  — Rachel Nuwer, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2020
• Replicating the same categorization task used in past studies, the researchers showed 23 three- to four-month-olds eight images representing one of two categories—dinosaurs or fish—while simultaneously playing a zebra finch song.
  — Rachel Nuwer, Scientific American, 11 Mar. 2021