A tradeoff between performance and accuracy in bird song learning

Ethology

Volumn 117, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 802-811

  Lahti, David C ^a,b   Moseley, Dana L ^a   Podos, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; IMITATION; LIFE HISTORY TRAIT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; SEXUAL SELECTION; SONG; SONGBIRD; TRADE-OFF;

AVES; MELOSPIZA GEORGIANA; PASSERI;

EID: 80051664806     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.01930.x     Document Type: Article

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