“As the heat punishes sun-crisped Australian woodlands, the adult birds make a rapid, peeping ‘heat call’. That signal kicks off genetic changes in unhatched baby zebra finches’ brains”
www.sciencenews.org/article/song...
🧪 🦉
Adult finches make "heat calls" as the temperature rises. Exposure to the song prepares their unhatched young's brains for the heat.