Sexual imprinting on a novel blue ornament in zebra finches

Behaviour

Volumn 143, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 969-991

  Witte, Klaudia ^a   Caspers, Barbara ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mate choice; Novel ornamentation; Sexual imprinting; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 33750087245     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853906778623626     Document Type: Article

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