Effects of male vocal learning on female behavior in the budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus

Ethology

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 901-923

  Hile, Arla G ^a,c   Burley, Nancy Tyler ^b   Coopersmith, Carol B ^b   Foster, Valerie S ^b   Striedter, Georg F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology ^*  (United States)

^c NATIONAL WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FEMALE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; PASSERINE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; BIAS (BIRD); MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 26244457953     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2005.01105.x     Document Type: Article

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