Countersinging as a signal of aggression in a territorial songbird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1179-1185

  Hyman, Jeremy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; SONG; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; PASSERI; THRYOTHORUS LUDOVICIANUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 0042412040     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2175     Document Type: Article

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