Metabolic and respiratory costs of increasing song amplitude in zebra finches

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Zollinger, Sue Anne ^a,c   Goller, Franz ^b   Brumm, Henrik ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR SAC; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APNEA; ARTICLE; BACKGROUND NOISE; BREATHING; BREATHING MUSCLE; BREATHING PATTERN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FINCH; LOUDNESS; MALE; MINIBREATH; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NOISE; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; POEPHILA CASTANOTIS; PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; SINGING; SONG AMPLITUDE; SOUND INTENSITY; SOUND PRESSURE; SUBSYRINGEAL AIR SAC PRESSURE; ANIMAL; FEMALE; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 80052525386     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023198     Document Type: Article

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