Display plasticity in response to a robotic lizard: Signal matching or song sharing in lizards?

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 955-962

  Brian Smith, C ^a   Martins, Emília P ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; LIZARD; ROBOTICS; SIGNALING; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; PASSERI; SCELOPORUS GRACIOSUS; SQUAMATA;

EID: 33748767363     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01253.x     Document Type: Article

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