Intensity of female preference quantified through playback setpoints: call frequency versus call rate in midwife toads

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 159-166

  Márquez, Rafael ^a   Bosch, Jaime ^a   Eekhout, Xavier ^a  

^a MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

A. cisternasii; Alytes obstetricans; call repetition rate; dominant frequency; female preferences; playback setpoints

Indexed keywords

CALLING BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; TOAD;

ALYTES OBSTETRICANS; ANURA; MUSTELA;

EID: 37349117298     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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