Multiple functions to duet singing: Hidden conflicts and apparent cooperation

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 823-831

  Marshall Ball, L ^a,b   Mann, N ^a,c   Slater, P J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b RSPB CENTRE FOR CONSERVATION SCIENCE   (United Kingdom)

^c School of Biology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CALLING BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; MATE GUARDING; PRIMATE; SONG; TERRITORY;

AVES; PRIMATES; THRYOTHORUS MODESTUS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES;

EID: 33645116146     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.021     Document Type: Article

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