Connecting interdisciplinary dots: Songbirds, 'white rats' and human exceptionalism

Social Science Information

Volumn 52, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 287-306

  Taylor, Hollis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

birdsong; cassican gorge noire; chants d'oiseaux; thologie; ethology; exception humaine; human exceptionalism; music; musique; natureculture; pied butcherbird; zo musicology; zoomusicologie

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877819460     PISSN: 05390184     EISSN: 14617412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0539018413477520     Document Type: Article

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