What's the evolutionary process that selected the songs imitation?

Fernando Medrano Martínez @Fernando-Medrano-Martinez

21 February 2014 1 8K Report

I want to understand the adaptive advantages of the imitation of songs of other birds (e.g. mockingbirds, thrushes).

There's a good paper by Garamszegi from 2007 that may address this. You've probably already read this, but I thought I would provide the reference anyway:

http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/6/1001.full

There seem to be quite a few potential evolutionary factors as well as a few ecological.

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