Male zebra finches and Bengalese finches emit directed songs to the video images of conspecific females projected onto a TFT display

Zoological Science

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 63-70

  Ikebuchi, Maki ^a,b   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a,c  

^a CHIBA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; COLAPTES; FRINGILLIDAE; LONCHURA STRIATA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 0033455298     PISSN: 02890003     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2108/zsj.16.63     Document Type: Article

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