The frequency of vocal mimicry associated with danger varies due to proximity to nest and nesting stage in a passerine bird

Behaviour

Volumn 151, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 73-88

  Goodale, Eben ^a   Ratnayake, Chaminda P ^b   Kotagama, Sarath W ^b  

^a KEY LABORATORY OF TROPICAL FOREST ECOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOMBO   (Sri Lanka)

Author keywords

Bird song; Dicruridae; Imitation; Teaching; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84893008287     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003123     Document Type: Article

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