Difficulties when assessing birdsong learning programmes under field conditions: A re-evaluation of song repertoire flexibility in the great tit

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Rivera Gutierrez, Hector F ^a   Pinxten, Rianne ^a   Eens, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVALUATION RESEARCH; FIELD STUDY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DIFFERENTIATION; SINGING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SONGBIRD; AGE; AGING; ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; VOCALIZATION;

AVES;

AGE FACTORS; AGING; ANIMALS; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SONGBIRDS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79251575048     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0016003     Document Type: Article

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