Directional female preference for an exaggerated male trait in canary (Serinus canaria) song

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 269, Issue 1509, 2002, Pages 2525-2531

  Drǎgǎnoiu, Tudor I ^a   Nagle, Laurent ^a   Kreutzer, Michel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Bird song; Serinus canaria; Supernormal stimulus

Indexed keywords

FEMALE; MATE CHOICE; SONG; TRADE-OFF; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CANARY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPULATION; FEMALE; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SINGING; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; SERINUS; SERINUS CANARIA;

EID: 0037160243     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2002.2192     Document Type: Article

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