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Insect noise avoidance in the dawn chorus of Neotropical birds

  • 1. Department of Biology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, U.S.A.
  • 2. Animal Physiology, Institute for Neurobiology, University of Tübingen, Germany

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Stanley, Calandra Q., Walter, Michael H., Venkatraman, Madhvi X., Wilkinson, Gerald S. (2016): Insect noise avoidance in the dawn chorus of Neotropical birds. Animal Behaviour 112: 255-265, DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.12.003, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2015.12.003

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