Dynamics of crowing development in the domestic Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica)

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1665, 2009, Pages 2153-2162

  Derégnaucourt, Sébastien ^a   Saar, Sigal ^b   Gahr, Manfred ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Development; Japanese quail; Vocal learning; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

GAMEBIRD; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; ISOLATED POPULATION; LEARNING; ONTOGENY; VOCALIZATION; YOUNG POPULATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTURNIX; COTURNIX COTURNIX JAPONICA; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION;

COTURNIX JAPONICA; PASSERI;

EID: 66749185405     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.0016     Document Type: Article

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