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
• 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 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
• 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

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