For whom the male calls: An effect of audience on contact call rate and repertoire in budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 875-882

  Striedter, Georg F ^a,b   Freibott, Lisa ^a   Hile, Arla G ^a   Tyler Burley, Nancy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; IMITATION; MATE ATTRACTION; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS;

EID: 0038193879     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2135     Document Type: Article

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