Songs differing in consistency elicit differential aggressive response in territorial birds

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 339-342

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Birdsong; Interactions; Intrasexual; Sexual selection; Song consistency

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIOACOUSTICS; ENCOUNTER RATE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FEATHER; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; SIGNALING; SONG; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENETIC SELECTION; MALE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SONGBIRD; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; SELECTION, GENETIC; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SONGBIRDS; TERRITORIALITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

AVES;

EID: 80051685692     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0962     Document Type: Article

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