Do blackbirds signal motivation to fight with their song?

Ethology

Volumn 113, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1021-1028

  Ripmeester, Erwin A P ^a   De Vries, Anne M ^a   Slabbekoorn, Hans ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIGHTING; SIGNALING; SONG; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 35348974025     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2007.01398.x     Document Type: Article

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