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Sources:
Zebra Finch
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-babies-ex/
http://science.sciencemag.org/cgi/doi/10.1126/science.aaf7049
http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/MU9950208.htm
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Prosocial Behaviors
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Taeniopygia_guttata.JPG
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https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MRI_subgenual_anterior_cingulate.png

Life-Changing Birdsong

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