Effects of song overlapping and alternating on nocturnally singing nightingales

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 1061-1067

  Naguib, Marc ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; PASSERINE; SIGNAL; SONG; TERRITORIALITY; TIME DEPENDENT BEHAVIOR;

LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0032743595     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1223     Document Type: Article

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