Back in the 1930s, a group of eight women in Massachusetts gathered with one goal: to create a uniquely tuneful pet canary. The result of their breeding experiments was the American Singer Canary.

Who knew canaries were taught songs? And who knew there were mechanical devices called serinettes that, when cranked by hand, taught new melodies to London Fancys, Yorkshire Spangles, Norwich Yellows, ...

For some kinds of birds, learning to sing is as much a part of growing up as learning to talk is for human children. They listen to their parents and other adults, memorize, imitate, practice, and in ...

Testosterone gets female canaries singing. Dutch researchers know how you can make a female canary sing using testosterone and the protein BDNF. Normally, female canaries don't sing, but with a few ...

Young male canaries can be taught to sing songs that sound like video game beeps. But wait, there's more. Once it's time to woo females with love songs, their repertoire switches to more traditional ...

Billionaire Eddie Stern doesn’t mind giving less affluent investors a kick in the wallet. The 38-year old money manager, whose family built a $3 billion fortune by selling birdseed and other pet ...