Bird calls: Just emotional displays or something more?

Ibis

Volumn 138, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 26-33

  Makler, Peter ^a   Evans, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALARM CALL; ANTIPREDATOR BEHAVIOUR; CALLING; CHICKEN; EMOTION; INFORMATION;

GALLUS GALLUS DOMESTICUS;

EID: 0029768951     PISSN: 00191019     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1474-919x.1996.tb04310.x     Document Type: Article

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