Sunda zebra finch

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Sunda zebra finch
2014-08-19 Zebra Finch, Sumba, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Indonesia 1.jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Passeriformes
Family: Estrildidae
Genus: Taeniopygia
Species:
T. guttata
Binomial name
Taeniopygia guttata
(Vieillot, 1817)

The Sunda zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata) is a species of bird in the family Estrildidae. It is found in the Lesser Sundas.

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Parasites

T. guttata sometimes serves as a model organism. Study of the immune response of T. guttata to parasites is informative for avians as a class. Its transcriptome responses to infection have been studied by Watson et al., 2017 and Scalf et al., 2019. [2] : 542 T. guttata is not known to have ever been infected with any Plasmodium . Valkiūnas et al., 2018 find T. guttata seems totally resistant to the malaria parasite that is most common among avians, Plasmodium relictum . [3]

Vocalization

Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) at the Essehof Zoo in Germany Essehof Zoo Zebra Finch.jpg
Zebra Finch (Taeniopygia guttata) at the Essehof Zoo in Germany

Only male zebra finches sing. [4] Each finch has an individual song. [4] Between the ages of 25 and 90 days old, young zebra finches learn to sing by copying the songs of adults, and sometimes by copying the songs of other juveniles. [4]

References

  1. ↑ BirdLife International (2018). "Taeniopygia guttata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species . 2018 e.T103817982A132195948. Retrieved 12 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Santiago-Alarcon, Diego; Alfonso, Marzal, eds. (2020). Avian Malaria and Related Parasites in the Tropics: Ecology, Evolution and Systematics. Cham, Switzerland: Springer. pp. xiv+575. ISBN   978-3-030-51632-1. OCLC   1204140762. ISBN   978-3-030-51633-8.
  3. ↑ Martínez-de la Puente, Josué; Santiago-Alarcon, Diego; Palinauskas, Vaidas; Bensch, Staffan (2021). "Plasmodium relictum". Trends in Parasitology . 37 (4). Cell Press: 355–356. doi:10.1016/j.pt.2020.06.004. ISSN   1471-4922.
  4. 1 2 3 Le Maguer, Lucille; Derégnaucourt, Sébastien; Geberzahn, Nicole (2021-04-30). "Female preference for artificial song dialects in the zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata)". Ethology. 127 (7): 537–549. doi:10.1111/eth.13159. ISSN   0179-1613.


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