Heaven it's my wife! male canaries conceal extra-pair courtships but increase aggressions when their mate watches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Ung, Davy ^a   Amy, Mathieu ^a   Leboucher, Gérard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS OUEST NANTERRE LA DÉFENSE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CANARY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COURTSHIP; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INTELLIGENCE; INTERSPECIFIC COMPETITION; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; SERINUS CANARIA; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; SERINUS CANARIA;

AGGRESSION; AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CANARIES; COMPETITIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79961229296     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022686     Document Type: Article

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