All "chick-a-dee" calls are not created equally. Part I. Open-ended categorization of chick-a-dee calls by sympatric and allopatric chickadees

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 73-86

  Bloomfield, Laurie L ^a   Sturdy, Christopher B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Allopatric; Categorization; Chickadee; Operant conditioning; Songbirds; Sympatric

Indexed keywords

ALLOPATRY; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; SONGBIRD; SYMPATRY;

ALLOPATRY; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; SONGBIRD; SYMPATRY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; ECHOLOCATION; FEMALE; MALE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TEACHING;

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS; PARUS GAMBELI;

EID: 36849078863     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2007.06.011     Document Type: Article

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