Song Learning in Song Sparrows: Relative Importance of Autumn vs. Spring Tutoring

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 653-661

  Nulty, Brigid ^a   Burt, John M ^a   Akçay, Çaĝlar ^a   Templeton, Christopher N ^a   Elizabeth Campbell, S ^a   Beecher, Michael D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INHIBITOR; JUVENILE; LABORATORY METHOD; LEARNING; SEASONALITY; SONG; SONGBIRD;

AVES; MELOSPIZA; MELOSPIZA MELODIA;

EID: 77954617943     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01782.x     Document Type: Article

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