Playback and Studies of Animal Communication

Design of Playback Experiments P.K. McGregor, et al. Playback J.B. Falls. Integrating Playback C.K. Catchpole. What Studies on Learning Can Teach Us About Playback Design I.M. Pepperberg. Conducting Playback Experiments and Interpreting their Results H.C. Gerhardt. Quantifying Responses to Playback P.K. McGregor. Interactive Playback T. Dabelsteen. Playback as a Tool for Studying Contests Between Social Groups K. McComb. Song Overproduction, Song Matching, and Selective Attrition During Development D.A. Nelson. Male Quality and Playback in the Great Tit M.M. Lambrechts. Mechanisms and Function of Call-Timing in Male-Male Interactions in Frogs G.M. Klump, H.C. Gerhardt. Measuring Responses of Female Birds to Male Song W.A. Searcy. Field Experiments on the Perception of Song Types by Birds A.G. Horn. 2 additional articles. Index.

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