Calling in an acoustically competitive environment: Duetting male long-tailed manakins avoid overlapping neighbours but not playback-simulated rivals

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 563-573

  Maynard, Dugan F ^a   Ward, Kara Anne A ^a   Doucet, Stéphanie M ^a   Mennill, Daniel J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WINDSOR   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alternating; Call timing; Countersinging; Long tailed manakin; Overlapping; Signal timing

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BIOACOUSTICS; CALLING BEHAVIOR; CONSPECIFIC; LEK; MALE BEHAVIOR; PRISTINE ENVIRONMENT; SIGNAL; SONG; SONGBIRD;

ANIMALIA; AVES; CHIROXIPHIA LINEARIS;

EID: 84865366818     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.06.008     Document Type: Article

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