Do male birds intercept and use rival courtship calls to adjust paternity protection behaviours?

Behaviour

Volumn 142, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 507-524

  Matessi, Giuliano ^a   McGregor, Peter K ^a,b   Peake, Tom M ^a   Dabelsteen, Torben ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b Newquay   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Communication networks; Courtship displays; Eavesdropping; Extra pair copulation; Playback experiments; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

AVES; PASSERIDAE; PETRONIA PETRONIA;

EID: 21344439315     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539054012010     Document Type: Article

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