Strong ungraded responses to playback of solos, duets and choruses in a cooperatively breeding Neotropical songbird

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1321-1327

  Bradley, David W ^a   Mennill, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

bird song; Campylorhynchus rufinucha; chorus; duet; playback; rufous naped wren

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COOPERATIVE BREEDING; DEFENSE BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; SONG; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CAMPYLORHYNCHUS RUFINUCHA; PASSERI;

EID: 64549104177     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.037     Document Type: Article

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