Delayed plumage maturation in socially isolated juvenile zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 113-121

  Leader, Noam ^a   Nottebohm, Fernando ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIRD; HATCHING; JUVENILE; MATURATION; MOLT; PLUMAGE; SEXUAL MATURITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONG;

TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 33745252597     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.09.013     Document Type: Article

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