Sexually antithetical song structure in a duet singing wren

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 331-350

  Logue, David M ^a,b   Droessler, Erika E ^a   Roscoe, David W ^a   Vokey, John R ^a   Rendall, Drew ^a   Kunimoto, Robyn M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

Acoustic adaptation hypothesis; Animal communication; Bird song; Darwin's principle of antithesis; Female song; Pheugopedius fasciatoventris; Sex differences; Signal evolution

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES; THRYOTHORUS FASCIATOVENTRIS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 34547594969     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907780425749     Document Type: Article

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