Female foraging responses to sexual harassment in the solitary bee Anthophora plumipes
Article Abstract:
The study of the efforts by males of the solitary bee Anthophora plumipes to mate with foraging females at flowers of comfrey, Symphytum orientale, reveals that the mating system fitted to scramble competition polygyny. Males roamed the comfrey and tried to mate with the females after a primary period of nectar foraging. Most of the females were inhospitable and could refuse the male after his initial approach which forced the female to ground. Females reacted to male harassment by flying away or by a change in foraging nature.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Foraging costs in social carnivores
Article Abstract:
It is possible to challenge the view that the costs and benefits of group foraging may have a significant impact on adult group sizes in wild dogs. Research on this subject is to be welcomed, but this view is based on data that does not seem to be convincing in some respects. In particular, it appears that there is no substantial improvement in foraging efficiency until pack sizes reach 18 to 20. In fact, such large packs hardly exist at all in Tanzania's Selous Game Reserve, from where the information was obtained.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1997
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
Capture and mass change: perceived predation risk or interrupted foraging?
Article Abstract:
Change in mass of single wild great tits, Parus major, post capture is analyzed. Interrupted foraging or perceived predation risk is attributed as the reasons for the mass difference.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2006
User Contributions:
Comment about this article or add new information about this topic:
- Abstracts: Temporal patterns of predation on artificial nests in the southern boreal forest. Behavioral responses of two predator species to sudden declines in primary prey
- Abstracts: AIDS and sexual behaviour in France. Solitary wave behaviour of sand dunes
- Abstracts: A welfare-based index for assessing environmental effects of greenhouse-gas emissions. The great Berlin greenhouse compromise
- Abstracts: Ecological importance of the Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Academic inequality
- Abstracts: An ice age in the tropics. Mechanism of the biological response to winter cooling in the northeastern Arabian Sea