Dawn song in superb fairy-wrens: a bird that seeks extrapair copulations during the dawn chorus
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Dalziell, Anastasia; Cockburn, Andrew
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Functional explanations of the dawn chorus in birds remain elusive. One hypothesis suggests that this acoustic display may play a role in female choice of extrapair males. Most young in cooperatively breeding superb fairy-wrens, Malurus cyaneus, are sired by extra-group males. Females initiate extra-group copulations exclusively through predawn forays to males singing in the dawn chorus. We measured variation between males in dawn singing at three levels of song production: song components,...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2008 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/52309 |
Source: | Animal Behaviour |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.05.014 |
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