Experimental manipulation of the rearing environment influences adult female zebra finch song preferences

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1397-1404

  Riebel, Katharina ^a   Naguib, Marc ^b   Gil, Diego ^c  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c MUSEO NACIONAL DE CIENCIAS NATURALES   (Spain)

Author keywords

brood size manipulation; developmental stress; female condition; female song learning; mating preference; sensory learning; sexual selection; Taeniopygia guttata; zebra finch

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN; BROOD SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMMUNE RESPONSE; JUVENILE; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; REARING; SENSORY SYSTEM; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; SONGBIRD; TESTOSTERONE;

AVES; PASSERI; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 70749127926     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.09.011     Document Type: Article

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