Singing and moving to the rhythm: song-entangled gestures in a vocal learning songbird
Emma Slupik, Ethan Ouyang, Elizabeth Joffrey, Spencer D. Kelly, Wan‐Chun Liu
This paper shows that zebra finches produce rhythmic head gestures synchronized with their songs, providing a model for studying multimodal communication and rhythmic synchronization in vocal-learning species.
bioRxiv · Aug 22, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience