Kenta Suzuki is a researcher in animal behaviour whose work includes experimental comparisons of domestication and wild songbirds. A 2021 study led by Kenta Suzuki compared neophobia, reluctance to approach unfamiliar objects, in the Bengalese finch and its wild ancestor, the white-rumped munia. The experiment measured feeding in the presence of a novel object rather than assigning a general personality label to the birds.[ref]
Effects of domestication on neophobia: A comparison between the domesticated Bengalese finch and its wild ancestor, the white-rumped munia by Kenta Suzuki and others. Publisher Abstract and Highlights; Behavioural Processes 193, 104502, 2021
More Bengalese finches ate under the novel-object conditions, and their delay before feeding was shorter and less affected by the object. The comparison supplies a concrete behavioral outcome through which to investigate domestication. It also illustrates the value of defining the response operationally: willingness to feed beside a new object measures a particular context, rather than every possible response to danger or unfamiliarity.[ref]
Effects of domestication on neophobia: A comparison between the domesticated Bengalese finch and its wild ancestor, the white-rumped munia by Kenta Suzuki and others. Abstract: proportion feeding and feeding latency under novel-object conditions
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