Honest advertisement of pairing status: Evidence from a tropical resident wood-warbler

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 375-390

  Staicer, Cynthia A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENDROICA ADELAIDAE; EMBERIZIDAE; PARULINAE;

ADELAIDE'S WARBLER; HONEST ADVERTISEMENT; SONG;

EID: 0029667641     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0036     Document Type: Article

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