Permissiveness in the learning and development of song syntax in swamp sparrows

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 93-103

  Podos, Jeffrey ^a,c   Nowicki, Stephen ^b   Peters, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Arizona   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; PASSERINE; SONG;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MELOSPIZA GEORGIANA; PASSERIDAE; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0032768114     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1999.1140     Document Type: Article

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