From preferential response to parental calls to sex-specific response to conspecific calls in juvenile zebra finches

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 189-195

  Mulard, Hervé ^a   Vignal, Clémentine ^a   Pelletier, Lise ^a   Blanc, Alain ^a   Mathevon, Nicolas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ JEAN MONNET   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic communication; Individual signature; Long term memory; Parent offspring recognition; Postfledging care; Sex difference; Taeniopygia guttata; Vocal recognition; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

ALARM SIGNAL; AUDITORY CUE; CONSPECIFIC; FAMILIARITY; FLEDGING; JUVENILE; MATE CHOICE; MEMORY; PARENT-OFFSPRING INTERACTION; PARENTAL CARE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE; SONGBIRD; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

EID: 77954758502     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.04.011     Document Type: Article

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