Use of stereo duet playback to investigate traditional duet playback methods and mechanisms of cooperative territorial defence in magpie-larks

Behaviour

Volumn 141, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 741-753

  Rogers, Amy C ^a   Ferguson, Jasmine E ^a   Harrington, Helena M ^a   McDowell, Sarah ^a   Miller, Audrey ^a   Panagos, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Communication; Duetting; Grallina cyanoleuca; Magpie lark; Stereo duet playback

Indexed keywords

EID: 4243126935     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539042245169     Document Type: Article

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