Two Neural Measures Differ between Urban and Rural Song Sparrows after Conspecific Song Playback

Urbanization is a critical form of environmental change that can affect the physiology and behavior of wild animals and, notably, birds. One behavioral difference between birds living in urban and rural habitats is that urban males show elevated boldness or territorial aggression in response to simu...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
Main Authors:	Kendra B. Sewall, Scott Davies
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Subjects:	urbanization social behavior network arginine vasotocin immediate early gene territorial aggression song sparrow
Online Access:	http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2017.00046/full