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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. <\/strong><\/span>According to researchers, the ability to rhythmically peck has evolved in the woodpeckers just like vocal learning. Woodpeckers learn how to drum their beaks the same way songbirds learn how to sing a tune, according to research published by a group of scholars at Brown University. The researchers claim the bird’s forebrain contains specialized pecking regions – and those areas resemble parts of the brain associated with birdsong and human language.<\/p>\n

Woodpeckers slam their beaks into trunks and create cavities so that they can catch their primary food – insects – with their long tongues; however, their also use the noise defend their territories, scaring off potential intruders.<\/p>\n

The scientists took notice of the parvalbumin marker gene (PV), which is associated with language learning in humans, as the process requires complex muscle coordination. They were trying to find it in birds that have no vocalization abilities.<\/p>\n

According to the study, the researchers played drumming sounds through speakers near nesting cavities in the wild and then examined the forebrains of the woodpeckers that drummed in response to the sound, discovering that the drum triggered activity in the PV brain regions.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Sierra-Leone. According to researchers, the ability to rhythmically peck has evolved in the woodpeckers just like vocal learning. Woodpeckers learn how to drum their beaks the same way songbirds learn how to sing a tune, according to research published by a group of scholars at Brown University. 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