Social Malleability in Cowbirds: New Measures Reveal New Evidence of Plasticity in the Eastern Subspecies (Molothrus ater ater)

Journal of Comparative Psychology

Volumn 110, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 15-26

  West, Meredith J ^a   King, Andrew P ^a   Freeberg, Todd M ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIRD; CANARY; FEMALE; IMITATION; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIRDS; CANARIES; FEMALE; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SEXUAL MATURATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0030093807     PISSN: 07357036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7036.110.1.15     Document Type: Article

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