Do female great tits (Parus major) assess males by eavesdropping? A field study using interactive song playback

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1426, 1999, Pages 1305-1309

  Otter, Ken ^a   McGregor, Peter K ^a   Terry, Andrew M R ^a   Burford, Fiona R L ^a   Peake, Tom M ^a   Dabelsteen, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Eavesdropping; Female intrusions; Great tit; Parus major; Song

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; PASSERINE; SONG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; INFORMATION; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MATING; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0033532965     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0779     Document Type: Article

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