Sons learn songs from their social fathers in a cooperatively breeding bird

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 279, Issue 1741, 2012, Pages 3154-3160

  Greig, Emma I ^a   Taft, Benjamin N ^b   Pruett Jones, Stephen ^c  

^a Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cooperative breeder; Kin recognition; Quality signalling; Social adaptation; Song learning; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

COOPERATIVE BREEDING; KIN RECOGNITION; LEARNING; NEIGHBORHOOD; PHENOTYPE; RELATEDNESS; SIGNALING; SONGBIRD;

AVES; MALURUS SPLENDENS; TROGLODYTINAE;

EID: 84863866227     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712954     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2011.2582     Document Type: Article

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