Early Experience Determines Song Dialect Responsiveness of Female Sparrows
- 13 November 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 214 (4522) , 819-821
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.214.4522.819
Abstract
In a laboratory experiment, female white-crowned sparrows responded almost exclusively to male songs taken from their home dialect region and usually not to songs taken from an alien dialect region. Song dialect populations may represent a level of genetic population structure below that of the subspecies and may play an important role in songbird evolution.This publication has 15 references indexed in Scilit:
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