Perceptual tuning to frequency characteristics of territorial signals in collared doves

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 847-857

  Slabbekoorn, Hans ^a   Cate, Carel Ten ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; MALE BEHAVIOR; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

STREPTOPELIA DECAOCTO;

EID: 0031729040     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0887     Document Type: Article

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