Song, stress and female preferences in the zebra finch, Taeniopygia guttata
The developmental stress hypothesis proposes that complex songs evolved as honest signals of developmental history. I tested the mate choice behaviour of female zebra finches, Taeniopygia guttata, that had been reared under control conditions or nutritional stress. In a visual mate choice experiment...
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Cardiff University
2010
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| Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.585043 |