Montezuma oropendolas modify a component of song constrained by body size during vocal contests

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 799-807

  Price, J Jordan ^a   Earnshaw, Sarah M ^a   Webster, Michael S ^b  

^a ST MARY'S COLLEGE OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY CONDITION; BODY SIZE; PASSERINE; SONG;

ANIMALIA; AVES; ICTERIDAE; MONTEZUMA; MONTEZUMA OROPENDOLAS; PASSERI; PSAROCOLIUS MONTEZUMA;

EID: 33645130151     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.05.025     Document Type: Article

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