Reaction to conspecific degraded song by the wren Troglodytes troglodytes: Territorial response and choice of song post

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 77-84

  Mathevon, N ^a   Aubin, T ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Bird; Propagation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BEHAVIOR; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; SINGING; SOUND;

ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION; COMMUNICATION; SONG; WREN;

TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 0030609656     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(96)00046-0     Document Type: Article

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