Vocal mimicry by a passerine bird attracts other species involved in mixed-species flocks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 471-477

  Goodale, Eben ^a   Kotagama, Sarath W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; FORAGING EFFICIENCY; MATE ATTRACTION; MIMICRY; MUTUALISM; PASSERINE; VOCALIZATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTH ASIA; SRI LANKA;

AVES; DICRURUS PARADISEUS; PASSERIFORMES;

EID: 33746628462     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.02.004     Document Type: Article

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