The function of duetting in magpie-larks: conflict, cooperation, or commitment?
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Avian duetting is a poorly understood phenomenon despite many hypotheses as to its function. Contrary to the recent view that duetting functions for mate guarding and is a result of conflict between the sexes, Australian magpie-larks, Grallina cyanoleuca, do not use duetting as a paternity guard. I used a playback experiment to investigate the role of antiphonal duetting in territorial defence and pair bond maintenance, two traditional hypotheses about the function of duetting. The experiment...[Show more]
Collections | ANU Research Publications |
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Date published: | 2000 |
Type: | Journal article |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/88946 |
Source: | Animal Behaviour |
DOI: | 10.1006/anbe.2000.1517 |
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