Perceptual mechanism for vocal individual recognition in jungle crows (Corvus macrorhynchos): Contact call signature and discrimination

Behaviour

Volumn 147, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1051-1072

  Kondo, N ^a,b   Izawa, E I ^a   Watanabe, S ^a  

^a KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contact call; Corvid; Corvus macrorhynchos; Individual recognition; Vocal signature

Indexed keywords

AVES; CORVIDA; CORVIDAE; CORVUS MACRORHYNCHOS;

EID: 77953199969     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/000579510X505427     Document Type: Article

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