Male great tits eavesdrop on simulated male-to-male vocal interactions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 268, Issue 1472, 2001, Pages 1183-1187

  Peake, T M ^a   Terry, A M R ^a   McGregor, P K ^a   Dabelsteen, T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Eavesdropping; Relative information; Signal interactions

Indexed keywords

MALE BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL; SONG; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; ENVIRONMENT; LOUDNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIMULATION; SINGING;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 0035821693     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2001.1648     Document Type: Article

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