title: Animal communication: timing counts.
abstract: Collective signalling in animals has fascinated biologists for a long time. A recent study on Australian songbirds sheds new light on the function of highly coordinated avian duets.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Behavioural and Neural Sciences, School of Biology, University of St Andrews, Fife, UK. henrik.brumm@st-andrews.ac.uk
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brumm
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Slater
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010152:Pair Bond; D020308:Songbirds; D013731:Territoriality; D013997:Time Factors; D014828:Vocalization, Animal