Long-term maintenance and eventual extinction of preference for a mate's call in the female budgerigar

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 82, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 971-979

  Eda Fujiwara, Hiroko ^a,b   Kanesada, Aya ^a   Okamoto, Yasuharu ^a   Satoh, Ryohei ^c   Watanabe, Aiko ^a   Miyamoto, Takenori ^a  

^a JAPAN WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^c KITASATO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Auditory memory; Budgerigar; Call; Melopsittacus undulatus; Pair bond; Parrot; Vocal communication

Indexed keywords

AUDITORY CUE; BIRD; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATE CHOICE; MATE RECOGNITION; MEMORY; PAIR BOND; VOCALIZATION;

AVES; MELOPSITTACUS; MELOPSITTACUS UNDULATUS; PSITTACIDAE;

EID: 84860391583     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.030     Document Type: Article

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