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Horm Behav ; 47(4): 446-51, 2005 Apr.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-15777810

ABSTRACT

To investigate whether changes in testosterone alter the frequency range in which a zebra finch produces song, we assigned male zebra finches to two groups, one of which received testosterone implants and the other empty silastic capsule implants. We then recorded songs up to 52 weeks after the surgery and measured frequency changes in the fundamental frequencies of arbitrarily chosen harmonic stacks in the songs of birds in either group. We found statistically significant decreases after 5 weeks in the songs of the testosterone-treated birds. No changes were found in the fundamental frequencies of the control group. The frequency change remained after the apparent effects of the testosterone implants ended. These data show that high levels of testosterone can lower the frequencies of elements in zebra finch songs.


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Pitch Discrimination/physiology , Songbirds/physiology , Sound Spectrography , Testosterone/physiology , Vocalization, Animal/physiology , Analysis of Variance , Animals , Male , Stereotyped Behavior/physiology
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