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GregH
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Today on the ABC Science Show a Latrobe University researcher following in the foot steps of the late Dr Richard Zann told Robin Williams about her work on zebra finches. Click on the link to hear how zebs react to and learn to act appropriately to threats and how this might be used in captive bred and predator naive birds reintroduced into the wild.
natamambo
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Nicky's a member here. Well done Nick on the kudos!
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She also did a couple of articles for our newsletters.
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Niki_K
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Haha that isn't actually me- Nicky is a very good friend and colleague of mine, and everyone gets us mixed up since we have the same first name and we both work on zebbies!
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As an aside, Nicky was one of Richard Zann's last honours students.
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