Singing interactions in songbirds: Implications for social relations and territorial settlement

Animal Communication Networks

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 300-319

  Naguib, Marc ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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EID: 84926949978     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511610363.018     Document Type: Chapter

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