Duke bird song researchers in the news

["Will Cook" <cwcook@duke.edu>]

Duke neurobiologist Erich Jarvis is in the news - here's an article about 
findings discussed at the recent annual meeting of the American Association 
for the Advancement of Science:

Birds' 'sexy songs' - BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/sci_tech/2003/denver_2003/2767671.stm

More on his research:

Singing in the Brain - Duke Magazine Nov/Dec 2001
http://www.dukemagazine.duke.edu/dukemag/issues/111201/brain.html

Singing in the Brain - Natural History Magazine
http://www.amnh.org/naturalhistory/features/1000_feature.html

Erich Jarvis's faculty web site
http://www.neuro.duke.edu/Faculty/Jarvis.htm

Duke biologist Steve Nowicki also studies bird song.  For more information, 
see:

Male Birds' Ability To Learn Song Affects Female Mating Response - Duke News
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/news/newsrelease.asp?p=all&id=679&catid=2

Steve Nowicki's lab:
http://www.biology.duke.edu/nowicki/

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Charles W. "Will" Cook                  w 919-660-7423
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook            cwcook@duke.edu
Box 90340, Biology Dept., Duke Univ., Durham, NC 27708