Context determines the sex appeal of male zebra finch song

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1003-1010

  Tchernichovski, Ofer ^a   Schwabl, Hubert ^a,b   Nottebohm, Fernando ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OESTROGEN; PLAYBACK EXPERIMENT; SEXUAL RECEPTIVITY; SONG; ZEBRA FINCH;

TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0032055639     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0673     Document Type: Article

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