Female Cowbird Song Perception: Evidence for Plasticity of Preference

Ethology

Volumn 109, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 865-877

  King, Andrew P ^a   West, Meredith J ^a   White, David J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PERCEPTION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SONG;

MOLOTHRUS; MOLOTHRUS ATER;

EID: 0344584839     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.0179-1613.2003.00924.x     Document Type: Article

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