Assortative pairing based on contact call similarity in budgerigars, Melopsittacus undulatus

Ethology

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1108-1116

  Moravec, Marin L ^a,c   Striedter, Georg F ^a,b   Burley, Nancy Tyler ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSORTATIVE MATING; BREEDING POPULATION; CALLING BEHAVIOR; GAMEBIRD; IMITATION; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR;

AVES; MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 33749849733     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01267.x     Document Type: Article

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