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Animal Language

on BBC Radio 4 FM

In the 25th year of the BBC's Natural History Unit-a series
In 26 parts
Narrator
David Attenborough
10: A Warbler Would a Wooing Go ...
As a prelude to mating" a male song bird does not pursue a female. Instead. he sits and sings and the female comes of her own accord. Cliff Catchpole of Bedford College, London; John Krebs of Oxford University: and Peter Marler of Rockefeller University, New York. discuss which is the more important function of bird song- attracting females or repelling males?
Producer MICHAEL BRIGHT BBC Bristol

Contributors

Narrator:
David Attenborough
Unknown:
Cliff Catchpole
Unknown:
John Krebs
Unknown:
Peter Marler

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