If a Male White-Crowned Sparrow Is Hatched and Reared in Isolation

question 14

Multiple Choice

If a male white-crowned sparrow is hatched and reared in isolation but allowed during a critical period of imprinting (10 to 50 days after hatching) to hear the song of a male from another species,the bird most likely will

• A) Only learn the appropriate song of its own species
• B) Sing the appropriate song of the other species
• C) Try to modify the crude song it was "born with" with the other-species song and produce a unique song
• D) Not sing at all
• E) develop an abnormal song.

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