Rapping, a female receptive call, initiates male-female duets in the South African clawed frog

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 95, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 1870-1875

  Tobias, Martha L ^a   Viswanathan, Sandya S ^a   Kelley, Darcy B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship songs; Fertility advertisement; Sexual selection; Vocal behaviors; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FERTILITY; FROG; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SOUTH AFRICA; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

ANIMALIA; ANURA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 0032539683     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.95.4.1870     Document Type: Article

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