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Abstract
Songbirds learn the songs that they sing from other individuals, but the learning is not always accurate. This leads to dialects and to changes with time in the songs found in one place. Are these phenomena functional or are they simply byproducts of vocal learning which has evolved for quite different reasons?Year: 1986 PMID: 21227788 DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(86)90032-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Trends Ecol Evol ISSN: 0169-5347 Impact factor: 17.712