Singing activity reveals personality traits in great tits

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 763-769

  Naguib, Marc ^a   Kazek, Agnieszka ^b   Schaper, Sonja V ^a   van Oers, Kees ^a   Visser, Marcel E ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF ECOLOGY NIOO KNAW   (Netherlands)

^b BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PASSERINE; SEXUAL SELECTION; SIGNAL; SONG;

ANIMALIA; PARUS MAJOR;

EID: 77955155377     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2010.01791.x     Document Type: Article

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