Plasticity of aggressive thresholds in Hyla regilla: Discrete accommodation to encounter calls

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 353-361

  Rose, Gary J ^a   Brenowitz, Eliot A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HYLA REGILLA;

ADVERTISEMENT CALL; AGGRESSIVE THRESHOLD; ENCOUNTER CALL; PACIFIC TREEFROG; VOCALIZATION;

EID: 0031060879     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1996.0400     Document Type: Article

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