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Science 7 May 1976:
Vol. 192. no. 4239, pp. 574 - 575
DOI: 10.1126/science.192.4239.574
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Reproductive Development in a Female Songbird: Differential Stimulation by Quality of Male Song

DONALD E. KROODSMA 1

1 Rockefeller University, New York 10021

Female canaries exposed to playback of large repertoires of male songs built nests faster and laid more eggs than did those females exposed to smaller song repertoires: females are attentive to attributes of male song, and their choices have played a role in the evolution of oscine singing behaviors.

Submitted on December 29, 1975
Revised on March 4, 1976


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