Vocal performance reflects individual quality in a nonpasserine

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 91-98

  Janicke, Tim ^a   Hahn, Steffen ^b   Ritz, Markus S ^a   Peter, Hans Ulrich ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

brown skua; Catharacta antarctica lonnbergi; honest signalling; male quality; motor constraint; sexual selection; vocal performance

Indexed keywords

HONEST SIGNALING; PASSERINE; RECOGNITION; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; CATHARACTA; CATHARACTA ANTARCTICA;

EID: 37349034930     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.04.007     Document Type: Article

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