Responses to interactive playback predict future pairing success in nightingales

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1355-1362

  Schmidt, Rouven ^a   Kunc, Hansjoerg P ^a   Amrhein, Valentin ^b   Naguib, Marc ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; INTRASPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; MATING SUCCESS; PAIR BOND; SONG; SONGBIRD;

LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS;

EID: 33751180098     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.03.022     Document Type: Article

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