Differential responses of yellow-breasted chats, Icteria virens, to male and female conspecific model presentations

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 21-26

  Mays Jr , Herman L ^a,b   Hopper, Kevin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIRD; CONSPECIFIC; GENDER DISPARITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ICTERIA VIRENS; PASSERIFORMES; THRYOTHORUS; THRYOTHORUS LUDOVICIANUS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 1142281899     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.01.003     Document Type: Article

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