Sex-specific responses to vocal convergence and divergence of contact calls in orange-fronted conures (Aratinga canicularis)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 275, Issue 1647, 2008, Pages 2147-2154

  Balsby, Thorsten J S ^a,b   Scarl, Judith C ^a  

^a Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Matching; Sex discrimination; Vocal flexibility; Vocal imitation; Vocal mimicry

Indexed keywords

BIRD; CONVERGENCE; DIVERGENCE; MIMICRY; SIGNAL; SONG;

ARATINGA CANICULARIS; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; BIRD; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; STIMULUS; VOCALIZATION;

CENTRAL AMERICA; COSTA RICA;

ARATINGA CANICULARIS; AVES;

EID: 48749096179     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0517     Document Type: Article

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