The behavioural mechanisms underlying temporal coordination in black-bellied wren duets

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1803-1808

  Logue, David M ^a,b   Chalmers, Carli ^a   Gowland, A Heather ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

Author keywords

answering rule; antiphonal song; behavioural mechanism; bird song; black bellied wren; cooperative territory defence; coordinated behaviour; Pheugopedius (Thryothorus) fasciatoventris; sexual dimorphism

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BEHAVIOR; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; PASSERINE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SIGNALING; SONG; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; THRYOTHORUS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 42149127161     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.10.036     Document Type: Article

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