Temporal variation in male chaffinch song depends on the singer and the song type

Behaviour

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 269-288

  Riebel, Katharina ^a,b   Slater, Peter J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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EID: 0038462086     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853903321671532     Document Type: Article

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