Female canary mate preferences: differential use of information from two types of male-male interaction

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 971-982

  Amy, Mathieu ^a   Monbureau, Marie ^a   Durand, Clémentine ^a   Gomez, Doris ^b   Théry, Marc ^b   Leboucher, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

^b MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

domestic canary; female preference; male male interaction; Serinus canaria; signals; visual or acoustic cues

Indexed keywords

DOMINANCE; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PASSERINE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL; SONG;

PASSERI; SERINUS CANARIA;

EID: 49149092452     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.03.023     Document Type: Article

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