Diet and birdsong: short‐term nutritional enrichment improves songs of adult Bengalese finch males

Song is a notable sexual signal of birds, and serves as an honest indicator of male quality. Condition dependence of birdsong has been well examined from the viewpoint of the developmental stress hypothesis, which posits that complex songs assure fitness because learned acoustic features of songs ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kentaro Yamada, Masayo Soma
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2016-12-01
Series:Journal of Avian Biology
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.00979