Ambient noise, motor fatigue, and serial redundancy in chaffinch song

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 475-481

  Brumm, Henrik ^a   Slater, Peter J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal communication; Bird song; Fringilla coelebs; Signal redundancy; Signal transmission

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE; SIGNALING; SONG; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS; PASSERI;

EID: 33745714923     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-006-0188-y     Document Type: Article

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