Visual and song nuclei correlate with courtship skills in brown-headed cowbirds

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 56, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 973-982

  Hamilton, Kristy S ^a   King, Andrew P ^a   Sengelaub, Dale R ^b   West, Meredith J ^c  

^a Department of Psychology ^*

^b Program in Neural Science

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; COURTSHIP; PASSERINE; VISUAL CUE;

MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 0031788929     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.0848     Document Type: Article

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