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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Song complexity"”.
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PATERNAL ATTRACTIVENESS AND PARENTAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES IN SONG SPARROWS MELOSPIZA MELODIA
… I examined how mate attractiveness (based on song complexity and genetic dissimilarity) affects female mating tactics, offspring sex allocation, offspring growth rates and parental feeding rates in a wild population of song sparrows (Melospiza melodia melodia). Male song complexity appeared to …
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Phylogenies of the sunbirds, spiderhunters and flowerpeckers (Nectariniidae) based on analyses of vocalisations
… This is the first comparative study of bird songs for an entire large Family (294 taxa analysed) to derive a phylogeny. In addition to standard sonographic measurements, this study is the first to use entropy values derived directly from sonograms as an objective way of separating calls from …