Dawn song in superb fairy-wrens: a bird that seeks extrapair copulations during the dawn chorus

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Animal Behaviour

• Publication date

  2008-02-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/J.ANBEHAV.2007.05.014
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