The significance of song repertoires: The Beau Geste hypothesis

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• Publication year

  1977

• Venue

  Animal Behaviour

• Publication date

  1977-05-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/0003-3472(77)90022-7
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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