Developmental stress affects song learning but not song complexity and vocal amplitude in zebra finches

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1387-1395

  Brumm, Henrik ^a,b   Zollinger, Sue Anne ^a   Slater, Peter J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bird song; Condition dependent signal; Developmental stress hypothesis; Early nutritional deficiency; Song amplitude; Song learning; Taenopygia guttata; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COMPLEXITY; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LEARNING; NUTRITION; PASSERINE; SONG; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; TAENOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 67650453697     PISSN: 03405443     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00265-009-0749-y     Document Type: Article

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