Temporal call changes and prior experience affect graded signalling in the cricket frog

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 611-618

  Burmeister, Sabrina ^a   Wilczynski, Walter ^a   Ryan, Michael J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CALLING BEHAVIOR; FROG;

ACRIS CREPITANS; ANURA; FEJERVARYA NICOBARIENSIS;

EID: 0033105395     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1033     Document Type: Article

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