Male bird song attracts females — a field experiment

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• Publication year

  1986

• Venue

  Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

• Publication date

  1986-09-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1007/BF00300645
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar

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