Learned vocalizations in budgerigars (Melopsittacus undulatus): The relationship between contact calls and warble song

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 2289-2297

  Tu, Hsiao Wei ^a,b   Osmanski, Michael S ^a,c   Dooling, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ELEMENTS; ACOUSTIC FEATURES; PSYCHOPHYSICAL TESTING; VOCAL REPERTOIRE;

SPEECH;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; PARAKEET; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; LEARNING; MALE; MELOPSITTACUS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; PAIR BOND; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79954531130     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3557035     Document Type: Article

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