Circulating testosterone levels do not affect exploration in house sparrows: Observational and experimental tests

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 731-739

  Mutzel, Ariane ^a   Kempenaers, Bart ^a   Laucht, Silke ^a   Dingemanse, Niels J ^a   Dale, James ^a,b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Exploration; Exploratory behaviour; House sparrow; Novel environment; Passer domesticus; Personality; Testosterone

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BIOASSAY; CAPTIVITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INDIVIDUAL VARIATION; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ORNAMENTATION; SONGBIRD; TESTOSTERONE; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMALIA; PASSER DOMESTICUS;

EID: 79952739562     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.01.001     Document Type: Article

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