Within-song complexity in a songbird is meaningful to both male and female receivers

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1289-1296

  Leitão, Albertine ^a   ten Cate, Carel ^a   Riebel, Katharina ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); COMPLEXITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; SIGNALING; SONG; SONGBIRD;

FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS; PASSERI;

EID: 33744997846     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.08.008     Document Type: Article

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