Male song complexity and parental care in the European starling

Behaviour

Volumn 134, Issue 9-10, 1997, Pages 661-675

  Mountjoy, D James ^a,b   Lemon, Robert E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

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EID: 0031506142     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853997x00025     Document Type: Article

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