The “Mute” Sex Revisited: Vocal Production and Perception Learning in Female Songbirds

By K. Riebel. 2003

186 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental Biology, Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Developmental Biology

1. Lauryn Benedict
2. P. Warren
3. K. Riebel
4. M. Hall
5. Karan J. Odom
6. L. Garamszegi
7. J. Podos
8. Carel ten Cate

In Ecology

1. Lauryn Benedict
2. L. Garamszegi
3. M. Hall
4. A. Møller
5. Karan J. Odom
6. K. Riebel
7. J. Podos
8. P. Warren

In Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

1. Lauryn Benedict
2. L. Garamszegi
3. A. Møller
4. P. Warren
5. K. Riebel
6. Marcel Eens
7. M. Hall
8. Karan J. Odom

Citations in the corpus

• The evolution of geographic variation in birdsong (2007, background): “Learned preferences for males that sing local songs could foster, through coevolution of dialect and preference, the divergence of dialect forms (Riebel, 2003).”
• The Evolution of Language: A Comparative Review (2005, unknown): “However, there are many bird species in which females also sing, either alone or in complex duets with males, so this generalization is not absolute (Langmore 1998; Riebel 2003).”
• Female zebra finches require early song exposure to prefer high-quality song as adults (2004, background): “Vocal learning in females has been studied in a few species where both sexes sing, such as Nuttal’s white-crowned sparrow, Zonotrichia leucophrys nutalli (Cunningham & Baker 1983) and northern cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis (Yamaguchi 1998, 1999; reviewed in Riebel 2003).”
• A call to document female bird songs: Applications for diverse fields (2018, background): “…would expand our knowledge of how sex differences in morphology (Ballintijn and ten Cate 1997, Hardouin et al. 2014), neurobiology (Brenowitz et al. 1997, Riebel 2003, Gahr 2007, Fortune et al. 2011), and other mechanisms produce patterns of signal variation across all individuals in nature.”
• Sociable schedules: interplay between avian seasonal and social behaviour (2006, background): “In addition to visual displays, this coordination can involve interactive vocalization, not just in duetting species, but also during the dawn chorus (Ball & Balthazart 2001; Gil & Gahr 2002; Riebel 2003; Gorissen & Eens 2004; Hall 2004).”
• A review of hypotheses for the functions of avian duetting (2004, background): “Though song learning has been well studied in male songbirds, learning in female songbirds is poorly understood (for a review, see Riebel 2003) and little is known about the ontogeny of duetting (Wickler and Sonnenschein 1989).”
• Accuracy of song syntax learning and singing consistency signal early condition in zebra finches (2008, background): “…the context of male–male competition and female mate choice, but there is evidence from some species that syntactical patterns rather than an increase in repertoire size affect signal value (e.g., Rehsteiner et al. 1998; Riebel and Slater 1998; Collins 1999; Leitão and Riebel 2003; Okanoya 2004).”
• The evolution of song in female birds in Europe (2007, background): “Third, the majority of female birds studied so far are able to learn and discriminate songs as listeners (reviewed in Riebel 2003).”