Male calling between courtship sequences in whitethroats: A way to counter intrusions from neighbouring rivals

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 149-157

  Balsby, Thorsten J S ^a,b   Dabelsteen, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

Call; Courtship; Intrusion; Playback

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CALLING BEHAVIOR; COURTSHIP; MATE GUARDING; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; COURTSHIP; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SYLVIA COMMUNIS;

SYLVIA; SYLVIA COMMUNIS;

EID: 0038724929     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0376-6357(03)00052-4     Document Type: Article

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