Nightingales respond more strongly to vocal leaders of simulated dyadic interactions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 266, Issue 1419, 1999, Pages 537-542

  Naguib, Marc ^a   Fichtel, Claudia ^a,b   Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Asymmetrical interactions; Birdsong; Eavesdropping; Long range communication; Luscinia megarhynchos; Nightingales

Indexed keywords

ASYMMETRIC INFORMATION; INTRASPECIFIC INTERACTION; MALE BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BIRD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGING; STIMULUS; TAPE RECORDER; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 0033594187     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.1999.0669     Document Type: Article

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