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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Photo: Bird Duets Are "Aggressive Audio Warfare"


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Tropical rufous-and-white wrens, such at the one pictured at top, use their complex duets to warn away encroaching rivals and to find each other in dense forest, according to a new study that used an innovative microphone technology (bottom).

Photography by Dale Morris