Continued scepticism that song overlapping is a signal

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Searcy, William A ^a   Beecher, Michael D ^b  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggressive signalling; Animal communication; Birdsong; Song overlapping

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; SIGNAL; SONG; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650198912     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.10.013     Document Type: Article

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