Reproductive Development in a Female Songbird: Differential Stimulation by Quality of Male Song
- 7 May 1976
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 192 (4239), 574-575
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.192.4239.574
Abstract
Female canaries exposed to playback of large repertoires of male songs built nests faster and laid more eggs than did those females exposed to smaller song repertoires: females are attentive to attributes of male song, and their choices have played a role in the evolution of oscine singing behaviors.This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
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