TY - JOUR
T1 - The Response of Swamp Sparrows to Acoustically Distinct Song Types
AU - Searcy, William A.
AU - Searcy, Margaret H.
AU - Marler, Peter
N1 - Funding Information:
1) Financial support was provided by NIMH grants MH 14651 to Peter MARLERa nd PHS MH 1525 to the Rockefeller University. We thank the Cary Arboretum of the New York Botanical Garden for providing access to the study sites; D. E. KROODSMaAn d R. PICKERTfo r allowing us to cite unpublished data; C. CLARK, R. M. SEYFARTH, and D. L. CHENEYfo r help with fieldwork; C. L. WHITNEYan d A. M. DUFTYfo r their comments on the manuscript; and R. M. SEYFARTfHo r translating the summary.
Copyright:
Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 1982
Y1 - 1982
N2 - Neither male nor female Melospiza georgiana showed differential reaction to 4 acoustically distinct conspecific song types. Although the identity of the particular song type presented was unimportant, the number of types presented was important, at least to females. Females responded more strongly overall to bouts of 4 song types than to bouts of single song types, because females habituated to the repeated presentation of a single song type, and showed a recovery in response when song types were switched. The ability to sing multiple song types thus may aid males in stimulating females to come into reproductive condition and then copulate. -from Authors
AB - Neither male nor female Melospiza georgiana showed differential reaction to 4 acoustically distinct conspecific song types. Although the identity of the particular song type presented was unimportant, the number of types presented was important, at least to females. Females responded more strongly overall to bouts of 4 song types than to bouts of single song types, because females habituated to the repeated presentation of a single song type, and showed a recovery in response when song types were switched. The ability to sing multiple song types thus may aid males in stimulating females to come into reproductive condition and then copulate. -from Authors
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U2 - 10.1163/156853982X00445
DO - 10.1163/156853982X00445
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0020226652
VL - 80
SP - 70
EP - 83
JO - Behaviour
JF - Behaviour
SN - 0005-7959
IS - 1-2
ER -