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A song system, also known as a song control system (SCS), is a series of discrete brain nuclei involved in the production and learning of song in songbirds.It was first observed by Fernando Nottebohm in 1976 in a paper titled "Central control of song in the canary, Serinus canarius", published in the Journal of Comparative Neurology.
Certain words in the English language represent animal sounds: the noises and vocalizations of particular animals, especially noises used by animals for communication. The words can be used as verbs or interjections in addition to nouns , and many of them are also specifically onomatopoeic .
There has been a strong connection with Cuban music, Venezuelan, Puerto Rican, and other Caribbean countries both through commerce and migration. Popular dances from the Canary Islands include: Isas; Tajaraste. It probably inspired the Canary dance which became popular all over Europe in the late 16th and early 17th century. Baile del Candil
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The original English ballads upon which Reynardine are based, most of which date to the Victorian era, are generally found under the title The Mountains High.In the original story, Ranordine (also given as Rinordine, Rinor Dine, Ryner Dyne, Rine-a-dine, Rynadine, Retterdyne, Randal Rhin or Randal Rine) is a bandit or outlaw who encounters a young woman in the wilderness and seduces or abducts her.
Lateral dominance of the hypoglossal nerve conveying messages from the brain to the syrinx was first observed in the 1970s. [3] [4] This lateral dominance was determined in a breed of canary, the waterschlager canary, bred for its long and complex song, by lesioning the ipsilateral tracheosyringeal branch of the hypoglossal nerve, disabling either the left or right syrinx.
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The yellow-fronted canary (Crithagra mozambica) is a small passerine bird in the finch family. It is sometimes known in aviculture as the green singing finch or the ‘’’green singer’’’. The yellow-fronted canary was formerly placed in the genus Serinus , but phylogenetic analysis using mitochondrial and nuclear DNA sequences found ...