Testosterone implants increase song but not aggression in male Lapland longspurs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 54, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 1177-1192

  Hunt, Kathleen E ^a   Hahn, Thomas P ^b   Wingfield, John C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; LAPLAND LONGSPUR; SONG; TESTOSTERONE;

AVES; CALCARIUS LAPPONICUS;

EID: 0030693854     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0558     Document Type: Article

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