Bird calls: Their potential for behavioral neurobiology

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1016, Issue , 2004, Pages 31-44

  Marler, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Bird song; Call repertoires; Calls; Contact calls; Food calls; Learned bird calls; Local dialects; Motivational rules; Sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FLYING; FOWL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSICS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL DETECTION; SINGING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

ACCIPITRINAE; ANIMALIA; AVES; GALLIFORMES; PASSERI;

EID: 3242699556     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1298.034     Document Type: Conference Paper

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