Long-time storage of song types in birds: Evidence from interactive playbacks

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 270, Issue 1519, 2003, Pages 1085-1090

  Geberzahn, Nicole ^a   Hultsch, Henrike ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird song; Nightingales; Silent storage; Song type memories; Vocal interaction

Indexed keywords

BIRD; LEARNING; MEMORY; SONG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; IMITATION; MALE; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SINGING;

ANIMALIA; AVES;

EID: 0038529876     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2003.2340     Document Type: Article

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