Directionality of the drumming display of the Ruffed grouse

Condor

Volumn 114, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 500-506

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

Acoustic directionality; Communication; Courtship; Grouse

Indexed keywords

AVES; BONASA UMBELLUS; TETRAONIDAE;

EID: 84865733626     PISSN: 00105422     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/cond.2012.110158     Document Type: Article

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