Decay of apparent individual distinctiveness in the begging calls of adult female white-throated magpie-jays

Condor

Volumn 110, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 648-657

  Ellis, Jesse M S ^a  

^a Cornell University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic feature analysis; Corvid; Food solicitation vocalization; Individual recognition; Individuality

Indexed keywords

CALOCITTA FORMOSA; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE;

EID: 67650075334     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2008.8592     Document Type: Article

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