Zebra Finches actively choose between live images of conspecifics

Ornithological Science

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 57-64

  Galoch, Zdzislaw ^a   Bischof, Hans Joachim ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Image discrimination; Mate choice; Visual and auditory cues

Indexed keywords

EID: 42249108900     PISSN: 13470558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2326/osj.5.57     Document Type: Article

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