Soft song and the readiness hypothesis: Comments on Akçay et al. (2011)

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2011, Pages

  Osiejuk, Tomasz S ^a  

^a ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Eavesdropping; Honest signalling; Soft song

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; PHYSIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; SIGNALING; SONG; SONGBIRD;

EID: 82355169024     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.09.011     Document Type: Article

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