Mountain chickadees from different elevations sing different songs: acoustic adaptation, temporal drift or signal of local adaptation?
Song in songbirds is widely thought to function in mate choice and male–male competition. Song is also phenotypically plastic and typically learned from local adults; therefore, it varies across geographical space and can serve as a cue for an individual's location of origin, with females commo...
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| Language: | English |
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The Royal Society
2015-01-01
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| Series: | Royal Society Open Science |
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| Online Access: | https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.150019 |