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Baby birds learn to recognise sounds in the egg

A NEW STUDY has found that baby birds learn to recognise their parents’ calls while inside the egg.

The study led by the BirdLab research group at Flinders University (FU) in Adelaide, Australia, (the egg) in response to different sounds.

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