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Intrasexual selection drives sensitivity to pitch, formants and duration in the competitive calls of fallow bucks

BACKGROUND: Mammal vocal parameters such as fundamental frequency (or pitch; f(o)) and formant dispersion often provide information about quality traits of the producer (e.g. dominance and body size), suggesting that they are sexually selected. However, little experimental evidence exists demonstrat...

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Autores principales: Pitcher, Benjamin J, Briefer, Elodie F, McElligott, Alan G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4538740/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26279584
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0429-7