Male territorial vocalizations and responses are decoupled in an avian hybrid zone

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 363, Issue 1505, 2008, Pages 2879-2889

  Den Hartog, Paula M ^a   Slabbekoorn, Hans ^a   Ten Cate, Carel ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acoustic signals; Coupling; Hybrid zone; Playback; Streptopelia doves; Territorial interactions

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; COEVOLUTION; HYBRID ZONE; LEARNING; SIGNAL; SPECIATION (BIOLOGY); VOCALIZATION;

AVES; COLUMBIFORMES; STREPTOPELIA; STREPTOPELIA CAPICOLA; STREPTOPELIA VINACEA;

EID: 48749133465     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2008.0046     Document Type: Article

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