Bölting, Stefanie; von Engelhardt, Nikolaus: Effects of the social environment during adolescence on the development of social behaviour, hormones and morphology in male zebra finches (Taeniopygia [...]. In: Frontiers in Zoology. Jg.14 H. 1. 2017
Inhalt
- Background
- Methods
- Subjects and housing conditions
- Social treatments
- Behavioural observations
- Hormones
- Colouration
- Body mass
- Adult housing
- Courtship song test
- Aggressiveness test
- Data analysis
- Results
- Social interactions
- Plastic song and song
- Hormones
- Colouration
- Body mass
- Courtship song test
- Aggressiveness test
- Discussion
- Maturation and adult behaviour
- Differences between groups with and without adults
- The role of endocrine changes
- Comparison with earlier experiments
- Conclusion
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Funding
- Availability of data and materials
- Authors’ contributions
- Competing interests
- Consent for publication
- Ethics approval and consent to participate
- Author details
- References