The day after: Effects of vocal interactions on territory defence in nightingales

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 168-173

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

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Bird song; Floaters; Social cognition; Territorial behaviour

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; SONG; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; MALE; SONGBIRDS; TERRITORIALITY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; LUSCINIA MEGARHYNCHOS;

EID: 33845897907     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2006.01182.x     Document Type: Article

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