Good neighbour, bad neighbour: song sparrows retaliate against aggressive rivals
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Good neighbour, bad neighbour: song sparrows retaliate against aggressive rivals Çağlar Akçay *, William E. Wood , William A. Searcy , Christopher N. Templeton , S. Elizabeth Campbell , Michael D. Beecher a,b,d Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Graduate Program in Neurobiology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A. Department of Biology, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, U.S.A. Department of Biology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
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