It is said, however, occasionally though rarely to eat insects, and Layard has related how an individual, kept in captivity, killed and swallowed small birds (Munias), its fellow-captives.
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Munia
Synonyms for "munia" (5 found)
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Finnish
1 entries- manikki noun (bird of the genus Lonchura)
Polish
1 entries- mniszka noun (bird of the genus Lonchura)
Russian
1 entries- му́ния noun (bird of the genus Lonchura)
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Munias are smaller than sparrows; they have pointed short tails, and live in flocks, building large communal nests shared by several breeding pairs.
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Okanoya (2002) argues that the Bengalese finch has a much more 'complex' song than the munia. As mentioned earlier, his measure of complexity is the song linearity. He finds that the average song linearity of the munia is around 0.8 while the Bengalese finch song has a value of around 0.4.
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