Context-Dependent Functions of Avian Duets Revealed by Microphone-Array Recordings and Multispeaker Playback

Current Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 1314-1319

  Mennill, Daniel J ^a   Vehrencamp, Sandra L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

^b Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

Author keywords

EVO_ECOL

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; COSTA RICA; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; MALE; PAIR BOND; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; AVES; THRYOTHORUS RUFALBUS;

EID: 50849088976     PISSN: 09609822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2008.07.073     Document Type: Article

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