Tap dancing birds: The multimodal mutual courtship display of males and females in a socially monogamous songbird

Scientific Reports

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Ota, Nao ^a   Gahr, Manfred ^b   Soma, Masayo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ORNITHOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COURTSHIP; DEVICES; FEMALE; FINCH; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRD; VIDEORECORDING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; FINCHES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SONGBIRDS; VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84947791392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep16614     Document Type: Article

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