Imitation and invention in song learning in nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos B., Turdidae)

Ethology

Volumn 108, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 97-113

  Hughes, Melissa ^a,b   Hultsch, Henrike ^a   Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b School of Business   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMITATION; LEARNING; PASSERINE; SONG;

AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; TURDIDAE;

EID: 0036185868     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1439-0310.2002.00720.x     Document Type: Article

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