Vocal communication between male Xenopus laevis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 353-365

  Tobias, Martha L ^a   Barnard, Candace ^a   O'Hagan, Robert ^a   Horng, Sam H ^a,b   Rand, Masha ^a,c   Kelley, Darcy B ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; FROG; MALE; VOCALIZATION;

AFRICA; CAPE TOWN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN AFRICA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WESTERN CAPE;

ANURA; XENOPUS (GENUS); XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 1442338746     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.03.016     Document Type: Article

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