Honorable Mention: Zebra Finch

Photo by Emily Argueta, undergraduate student Charles E. Schmidt College of Science

This photograph depicts the musculature of a zebra finch (Taeniopygia guttata). This image was taken as part of a project created and designed by a fellow undergraduate student and I to investigate the muscle geometry of zebra finches by using diceCT imaging. The goal of the project is to create a 3D visual reconstruction of zebra finch’s wing and vocal muscle to further studies of muscle biomechanics, sexual dimorphism, and formation of muscle. This zebra finch came from Dr. Rindy Anderson's songbird lab on the Davie campus and was scanned using a micro-CT scanner at the FAU High School Owls Imaging lab.