Domestication changes innate constraints for birdsong learning

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 106, Issue , 2014, Pages 91-97

  Kagawa, Hiroko ^a,c,d   Suzuki, Kenta ^b,d   Takahasi, Miki ^a,c,d   Okanoya, Kazuo ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^d RIKEN BRAIN SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bengalese finches; Evolution; Learning; Songbird; White rumped munias

Indexed keywords

DOMESTICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; LEARNING; PHENOTYPE; SONG; SONGBIRD; SOUND PROPAGATION; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTICATION; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FINCH; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; REARING; SOUND; ANIMAL; PET ANIMAL; PHYSIOLOGY; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; FINCHES; LEARNING; MALE; PETS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84901033724     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2014.04.011     Document Type: Article

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