Song learning from playback in zebra finches: Is there an effect of operant contingency?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 837-845

  Houx, Bart B ^a   Ten Cate, Carel ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LEARNING; SONG;

TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0033119608     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1998.1046     Document Type: Article

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