At Nagoya University and the National Institute of Basic Biology, researchers have found a brain receptor that helps to initiate quail breeding. Meanwhile, researchers at Waseda and Kitasato ...

The Japanese quail has an interesting mating strategy: the females prefer to mate with the losers of fights. Or do they? A new scientific paper on the topic makes me want to set up a quail fighting ...

Electric whisks, step aside. Male Japanese quail (Coturnix japonica) can use their sex organs to whip up a meringue-like foam. This frothy, protein-rich concoction seems to help sperm fertilise the ...