Animals can vary signal amplitude with receiver distance: evidence from zebra finch song

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 699-705

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BIRD; SIGNAL; SIGNALING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 33748179721     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.01.020     Document Type: Article

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