Culture and courtship in vertebrates: A review of social learning and transmission of courtship systems and mating patterns

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 51, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 177-192

  Freeberg, Todd M ^a  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Courtship; Cultural transmission; Culture; Mate preference; Sexual imprinting; Social learning; Song learning

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; CULTURE; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; LEARNING; REPRODUCTIVE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; BREEDING; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SINGING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL LEARNING; VERTEBRATE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERIFORMES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0034609882     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(00)00127-3     Document Type: Article

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