Back in the 1930s, a group of eight women in Massachusetts gathered with one goal: to create a uniquely tuneful pet canary. The result of their breeding experiments was the American Singer Canary.
In 18th-century Europe, stylish aristocrats taught their pet canaries to sing tunes with a device called a serinette. An automated pipe organ, the serinette repeatedly cranked out the same sequence of ...
A new study from the Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence tackles this by focusing on female canaries, which do not normally sing, but nevertheless contain the full neural machinery for ...
Q-I’ve had my pet canary about three years. I give him canary seed, color seed, song seed, lots of fresh water and, as a treat, a small piece of banana, orange, cucumber, broccoli or celery. He’s ...
There are so many blessings to be had when we share our lives with animals. Our interactions with our companions often depend on what type of creature we care for, and so, too, do the joys we receive ...
Q-My wife and I got a canary about 18 months ago. It sang so much and so loudly, especially in the morning, that it was almost annoying. It stopped singing while it molted, but always started again ...