Testing the flexibility of song type bout duration in the chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs
Article Abstract:
A new study of the chaffinch species Fringilla coelebs tests the theory that playback of songs from a male songbird's own repertoire causes it to alter the relative frequencies of its song types.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Testing female chaffinch song preferences by operant conditioning
Article Abstract:
Laboratory-reared female chaffinches, Fringilla coelebs, were tape-tutored just after fledging to determine whether their song preferences can be influenced by operant conditioning. Results revealed that song preferences by female chaffinches vary individually for songs within the species-specific range. Moreover, operant conditioning with song early life has very little effect in forming preferences.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1998
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Song type switching in the chaffinch, Fringilla coelebs: timing or counting?
Article Abstract:
Chaffinches have a limited repertoire ofbetween one and six songs, and song types can be recognized easily. Observations of chaffinches indicate that temporal limitation is the mechanism for song type switching. Longer bouts of song tended to be more common among birds with two song types than those chaffinches that had three types. The bout length appears to be influenced by contexts, and there appear to be difference intrinsic mechanisms that are linked to song types.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1999
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Paternity, copulation disturbance and female choice in lekking black grouse. Female-female aggression and female mate choice on black grouse leks
- Abstracts: Effects of an environmental perturbation on the social behavior and physiological function of brown trout. Familiarity influences body darkening in territorial disputes between juvenile salmon
- Abstracts: The importance of valuing resources: host weight and contender age as determinants of parasitoid wasp contest outcomes
- Abstracts: Camponotus fellah colony integration: worker individuality necessitates frequent hydrocarbon exchanges. Acoustics, context and function of vibrational signalling in a lycaenid butterfly-ant mutualism