Morphology of the basilar papilla in the budgerigar, Melopsittacus undulatus

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-36990
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.3699

Manley, Geoffrey A. ; Schwabedissen, Gabriele ; Gleich, Otto

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Abstract

The budgerigar is a representative of the parrot-like birds that, like song birds, have developed complex communication signals. This species is interesting in a psychoacoustic sense, in that it shows unusually good frequency discriminative abilities above about 1 kHz. To begin to understand whether the peripheral hearing organ plays a role in such specializations, we have carried out a ...