Territorial aggression in urban and rural Song Sparrows is correlated with corticosterone, but not testosterone

Authors: Scott Davies, Michelle L. Beck, Kendra B. Sewall

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: androgen, challenge hypothesis, glucocorticoid, territorial aggression, urbanization

2018

Mate call as reward: Acoustic communication signals can acquire positive reinforcing values during adulthood in female zebra finches (Taeniopygia guttata)

Authors: Alexandra M. Hernandez, Emilie C. Perez, Hervé Mulard, Nicolas Mathevon, Clémentine Vignal

Publication/Journal: Journal of Comparative Psychology

Keywords: *animal mate selection, *animal mating behavior, *animal vocalizations, *bird song, *female animals, birds, operant conditioning, reinforcement

2016

Multimodal duetting in magpie-larks: how do vocal and visual components contribute to a cooperative signal’s function?

Authors: Paweł Ręk, Robert D. Magrath

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: antiphonal duets, cooperative displays, magpie-lark, multimodal signals, robotic birds

2016

Urban noise undermines female sexual preferences for low-frequency songs in domestic canaries

Authors: Guillaume Huet des Aunay, Hans Slabbekoorn, Laurent Nagle, Floriane Passas, Pierre Nicolas, Tudor I. Draganoiu

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: anthropogenic noise, birdsong, domestic canary, masking, mate choice, serinus canaria

2014

Call intensity is a repeatable and dominant acoustic feature determining male call attractiveness in a field cricket

Authors: Diptarup Nandi, Rohini Balakrishnan

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: acoustic signal, female preference, field cricket, mate choice, plebeiogryllus guttiventris, repeatability, sexual selection, sound pressure level

2013

Early-life stress affects song complexity, song learning and volume of the brain nucleus RA in adult male song sparrows

Authors: Kim L. Schmidt, S. Drew Moore, Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton, Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: birdsong, caudomedial mesopallium, caudomedial nidopallium, cmm, developmental stress, hvc, melospiza melodia, ncm, ra, song preference

2013

Early-life stress affects the behavioural and neural response of female song sparrows to conspecific song

Authors: Kim L. Schmidt, Erin S. McCallum, Elizabeth A. MacDougall-Shackleton, Scott A. MacDougall-Shackleton

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: birdsong, caudomedial mesopallium, caudomedial nidopallium, cmm, developmental stress, hvc, melospiza melodia, ncm, ra, song preference

2013

The effect of alloparental experience and care on anxiety-like, social and parental behaviour in adult mandarin voles

Authors: Ruiyong Wu, Zhenzhen Song, Fadao Tai, Xiaolei An, Peng Yu, Yani Li

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: aggression, alloparental care, alloparental experience, anxiety-like behaviour, early development, locomotor-activity, mandarin vole, microtus mandarinus, parental behaviour, social behaviour

2013

Effects of water restriction on reproductive physiology and affiliative behavior in an opportunistically-breeding and monogamous songbird, the zebra finch

Authors: Nora H. Prior, Sarah A. Heimovics, Kiran K. Soma

Publication/Journal: Hormones and Behavior

Keywords: affiliation, corticosterone, dhea, estradiol, monogamy, neurosteroid, pair bond, sex difference, song, testosterone

2013

An experimental study of duet integration in the happy wren, Pheugopedius felix

Authors: Christopher N. Templeton, Nigel I. Mann, Alejandro A. Ríos-Chelén, Esmeralda Quiros-Guerrero, Constantino Macías Garcia, Peter J. B. Slater

Publication/Journal: Animal Behaviour

Keywords: *animal cognition, birdsong, duetting, happy wren, pheugopedius felix, reaction time, signal processing, song type selection, vocal communication

2013

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