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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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2016-12-01
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Series: | Journal of Avian Biology |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1111/jav.00979 |