Motor constraints on vocal development in a songbird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1061-1070

  Podos, Jeffrey ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0030152138     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0107     Document Type: Article

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