On the function of song type repertoires: testing the 'antiexhaustion hypothesis' in chaffinches

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 37-42

  Brumm, Henrik ^a,b   Lachlan, Robert F ^a,c   Riebel, Katharina ^a,d   Slater, Peter J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

acoustic communication; bird song; chaffinch; evolution of song; Fringilla coelebs; performance constraints; sexual selection

Indexed keywords

BIOACOUSTICS; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MUSCLE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD;

AVES; FRINGILLA; FRINGILLA COELEBS;

EID: 57449109509     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.009     Document Type: Article

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