Female great tits can identify mates by song

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 667-671

  Lind, Hans ^c   Dabelsteen, Torben ^a   McGregor, Peter K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GREAT TIT; MATE IDENTIFICATION; SONG;

PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0030439924     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0211     Document Type: Article

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