Repertoire size and composition in great tits: a flexibility test using playbacks

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 261-269

  Franco, Padu ^a,b   Slabbekoorn, Hans ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY   (Colombia)

Author keywords

birdsong; cognition; great tit; Parus major; plasticity; repertoire size; sexual selection; song learning

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; INTERSEXUAL INTERACTION; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; LEARNING; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

AVES; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 57449112066     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.09.023     Document Type: Article

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