Vocal memes in natural populations of chickadees: why do some memes persist and others go extinct?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 279-289

  Baker, Myron C ^a,b   Gammon, David E ^c  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c ELON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

bird; black capped chickadee; culture; evolution; meme; Poecile atricapillus; vocalization

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTION; PASSERINE; SIGNAL; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; PARIDAE; PARUS ATRICAPILLUS;

EID: 37349008189     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.05.022     Document Type: Article

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