Avian vocal mimicry: A unified conceptual framework

Biological Reviews

Volumn 90, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 643-668

  Dalziell, Anastasia H ^a,d   Welbergen, Justin A ^b,c   Igic, Branislav ^a,e   Magrath, Robert D ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d Fuller Evolutionary Biology Program   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AKRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Alarm calls; Animal communication; Bird song; Deception; Mimicry; Model; Repertoire; Signal receiver; Vocal imitation; Vocal learning

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; AVES;

ANIMAL; BIRD; EVOLUTION; LEARNING; PHYSIOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIRDS; LEARNING; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84927113682     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/brv.12129     Document Type: Article

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