The reproductive choices of eavesdropping female black-capped chickadees, Poecile atricapillus

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 90, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 577-582

  Mennill, Daniel J ^a,b   Boag, Peter T ^a   Ratcliffe, Laurene M ^a  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; CONTEST COMPETITION; MATE CHOICE; PASSERINE; SONG;

AGGRESSION; ARTICLE; ASSORTATIVE MATING; CHICKADEE; DECISION MAKING; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FERTILIZATION; MALE; MATING; MATING SYSTEM; MATING TYPE; NONHUMAN; POECILE ATRICAPILLUS; PREDICTION; REPRODUCTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; FEMALE; HEARING; MALE; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS;

ANIMALIA; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PASSERI; PASSERIFORMES; POECILE; POECILE ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 0347416949     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-003-0479-3     Document Type: Article

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