Male-male vocal interactions and the adjustment of song amplitude in a territorial bird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 281-286

  Brumm, Henrik ^a,b   Todt, Dietmar ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Institut fur Biologie   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PASSERINE; SONG; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS; PASSERI;

EID: 1442338796     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.06.006     Document Type: Article

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