Mechanisms of vocal production in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus)

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 578-589

  Brittan Powell, Elizabeth F ^a   Dooling, Robert J ^a   Larsen, Ole N ^b   Heaton, James T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARDRUM; FEMALE; MALE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SOUND; TRACHEA; VIBRATION; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BIRDS; FEMALE; MALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031012533     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.418121     Document Type: Article

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