An eye for beauty: Lateralized visual stimulation of courtship behavior and mate preferences in male zebra finches, taeniopygia guttata

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 102, Issue , 2014, Pages 33-39

  Templeton, Jennifer J ^a   McCracken, Brianna G ^a   Sher, Melissa ^a   Mountjoy, D James ^a  

^a KNOX COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Courtship; Mate choice; Visual lateralization; Zebra finch

Indexed keywords

AVIFAUNA; BRAIN; COGNITION; COLOR MORPH; COURTSHIP; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; EYE; MATE CHOICE; MORPHOLOGY; PASSERINE; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; SEXUAL SELECTION; VISUAL CUE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COURTSHIP; ESTHETICS; EYE; FEMALE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; MATE CHOICE; NONHUMAN; REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

TAENIOPYGIA GUTTATA;

COURTSHIP; MATE CHOICE; VISUAL LATERALIZATION; ZEBRA FINCH;

ANIMALS; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FINCHES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; MALE; MATING PREFERENCE, ANIMAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84896733659     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2013.11.001     Document Type: Article

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