Department of Zoology, Zoological Survey of India, Dehradun, India
Case Report
How Finches Behave Differently in Dark-Light Condition?
Author(s): Garima Singh*, Sachin Kumar, Kalpana Chaudhary, Gaurav Sharma and SK Bhardwaj
Circadian rhythms respond primarily to light and dark and affect
most living things. These are more synchronized in birds than
mammals. Circadian clock functions as a timing reference
allow organisms fluctuations in their environments and are the
basis for the transduction of seasonality from photoperiod.
Organisms maximize their fitness by synchronizing their
physiology and behavior with the abiotic and biotic features of
their environments. This can be possible by endogenous
circadian clocks, when they prevailing with light, food and
socio environments, determine temporal patterns of events
during the day in daily functions as activity rest, sleep wake and
feeding patterns. At the regulatory level, circadian clocks
govern changes in physiology and behavior within each day;
hence, behavioral and physiological functions exhibit daily and
circa.. View More»
DOI:
10.35248/2322-3308.12.1.009
