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Playback And Studies Of Animal Communication »

Authors: Peter K. Mcgregor
ISBN-13: 9780306442056, ISBN-10: 0306442051
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Date Published: April 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Design of playback experiments: the Thornbridge Hall NATO ARW Consensus	1
	Playback: a historical perspective	11
	Integrating playback: a wider context	35
	What studies on learning can teach us about playback design	47
	Conducting playback experiments and interpreting their results	59
	Quantifying responses to playback: one, many, or composite multivariate measures?	79
	Interactive playback: a finely tuned response	97
	Playback as a tool for studying contests between social groups	111
	Song overproduction, song matching and selective attrition during development	121
	Male quality and playback in the great tit	135
	Mechanisms and function of call-timing in male-male interactions in frogs	153
	Measuring responses of female birds to male song	175
	Field experiments on the perception of song types by birds	191
	Bird song and operant experiments: a new tool to investigate song perception	201
	Pitch processing strategies in birds: a comparison of laboratory and field studies	211
	Participants	225
	Index	227