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Selective Vocal Learning in a Sparrow
Abstract
Male swamp sparrows learn their songs; they fail to learn songs of the sympatric song sparrow. Syllables from tape recordings of both species of sparrow were spliced into an array of swamp sparrow-like and song sparrow-like temporal patterns. Swamp sparrows learned only those songs made of swamp sparrow syllables. They did so irrespective of whether the temporal pattern was swamp sparrow-like or song sparrow-like. Selectivity was retained by birds reared in total isolation from adult conspecific sounds.
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- Authors
- Marler, P., & Peters, S.
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1977-11-04
- Volume
- 198
- Issue
- 4316
- Pages
- 519-521
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2094695244
- Cited by
- 382
- References
- 3
- FWCI
- 8.81
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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