Vocal performance influences male receiver response in the banded wren

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 273, Issue 1596, 2006, Pages 1907-1912

  Illes, Anya E ^a,b   Hall, Michelle L ^a   Vehrencamp, Sandra L ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic playback; Bird song; Performance limit; Sexual selection; Thryothorus pleurostictus; Trill rate

Indexed keywords

MALE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; THRYOTHORUS PLEUROSTICTUS; TOPOGRAPHY; VOCAL CORD; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; THRYOTHORUS PLEUROSTICTUS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; MALE; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33750630695     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2006.3535     Document Type: Article

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