Songbirds use pulse tone register in two voices to generate low-frequency sound

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 274, Issue 1626, 2007, Pages 2703-2710

  Jensen, Kenneth K ^a,c   Cooper, Brenton G ^b   Larsen, Ole N ^a   Goller, Franz ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

High speed video endoscopy; Songbird; Sound production; Syrinx; Vocal fry

Indexed keywords

SONGBIRD; SOUND PROPAGATION; VIDEOGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANESTHESIA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROW; NONHUMAN; PHONATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SONGBIRD; SOUND; SOUND INTENSITY; VIBRATION; VIDEORECORDING; VOCAL CORD; ZEBRA FISH;

CORVIDAE; MAMMALIA; PASSERI; STURNIDAE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 35248865326     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0781     Document Type: Article

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