Abstract
Abstract. Earlier work suggested that young male zebra finches given a choice between their father and another male during the sensitive phase for song learning prefer to learn from their father. A series of experiments was conducted to discover the reasons for this preference. Evidence presented here, and from work carried out by Böhner (1983, Anim. Behav., 31, 231-237), suggests the involvement of three factors. Birds preferred to learn from the male with which they were housed before the sensitive phase, which would normally be the father. In addition, there was a preference for learning from the male that is paired to the female that had reared them, normally the mother; and a preference for learning from a paired rather than a single male.
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