Song Types in a Population of Great Tits (Parus Major): Their Distribution, Abundance and Acquisition By Individuals

摘要: This 6-year study of song acquisition in a marked population great tits suggests that songs are learned both before and after dispersal, not from fathers. The spatial temporal distribution the is also discussed. There decline proportion repertoire shared with increasing distance male, but there no consistent pattern type grouping, some clumped while others not. Size related to male age. These results discussed relation laboratory studies learning, dialects functional hypotheses concerning learning.