How do they duet? Sexually dimorphic behavioural mechanisms structure duet songs in the black-bellied wren

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 105-113

  Logue, David M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

behavioural mechanisms; black bellied wren; cooperative territory defence; duet code; individual recognition; mapping function; Pheugopedius fasciatoventris; signal structure; Thryothorus fasciatoventris; vocal communication

Indexed keywords

CHIMERA; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; PASSERI; THRYOTHORUS FASCIATOVENTRIS; TROGLODYTES TROGLODYTES; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 33845794391     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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