Are two heads better than one? Responses of the duetting kokako to one- and two-speaker playback

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 131-138

  Molles, Laura E ^a   Waas, Joseph R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WAIKATO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BIRD; COMPETITION (ECOLOGY); DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; SONG;

AVES; CALLAEAS; CALLAEAS CINEREA; CALLAEAS CINEREA WILSONI;

EID: 33745288588     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.10.012     Document Type: Article

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