Chapter 6 Song and Female Mate Choice in Zebra Finches: A Review

Advances in the Study of Behavior

Volumn 40, Issue , 2009, Pages 197-238

  Riebel, Katharina ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural transmission; Developmental plasticity; Female condition; Female song learning; Mate choice; Sensory learning; Song preference; Song preference learning; Taeniopygia guttata; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

EID: 68049110619     PISSN: 00653454     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-3454(09)40006-8     Document Type: Review

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