Duet singing and repertoire use in threat signalling of individuals and pairs

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 271, Issue SUPPL. 6, 2004, Pages

  Marshall Ball, L ^a   Slater, P J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Canebrake wren; Duetting; Repertoire sharing

Indexed keywords

TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; COMPETITION; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; SPECIES COMPARISON; SPECIES RECOGNITION;

THYROTHORUS MODESTUS;

EID: 17044374686     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2004.0186     Document Type: Article

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