Effects of male call pitch on female behaviour and mate fidelity in little penguins

Journal of Ethology

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 167-171

  Miyazaki, Masamine ^a,b   Waas, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

^b NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Advertising call; Little penguins; Male call pitch; Mate fidelity; Playback experiments

Indexed keywords

EUDYPTULA MINOR; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 23944472378     PISSN: 02890771     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10164-005-0148-4     Document Type: Article

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