Temporal and Spectral Analyses Reveal Individual Variation in a Non-Vocal Acoustic Display: The Drumming Display of the Ruffed Grouse (Bonasa umbellus, L.)

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 292-301

  Garcia, Maxime ^a,b,c   Charrier, Isabelle ^b,c   Rendall, Drew ^a   Iwaniuk, Andrew N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAMEBIRD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; BONASA UMBELLUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84857058390     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2011.02011.x     Document Type: Article

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