Vocal signals of the village weaver: A spectrographic key and the communication code

Condor

Volumn 102, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 60-80

  Collias, Nicholas E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Code; Communication; Darwin's antithesis; Ploceus cucullatus; Sound spectrograms; Village Weaver; Vocal signals

Indexed keywords

PLOCEUS CUCULLATUS;

EID: 0033961270     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1370408     Document Type: Article

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