Female aggregation and male competition reduce costs of sexual harassment in the mosquitofish Gambusia holbrooki
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Sexual harassment is expected to conflict with other activities such as foraging because female mosquitofish invest considerable time and energy in avoiding unwanted copulations. However, sexual conflict is expected to be important in shaping association patterns of female mosquitofish mosquitofish with conspecifics of both sexes as male sexual activity has a large impact on a female's feeding efficiency and possibly on her survival and reproduction.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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Female sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna, remember males and copy the choice of others after 1 day
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An investigation was undertaken to find whether sailfin molly females copy the choice of other females when they are prevented from copying immediately after observing a model female next to a previously nonpreferred male. The conclusion states that females remember individual males with whom a model female had interacted, even after one day.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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Female sailfin mollies, Poecilia latipinna, remember males and copy the choice of others after 1 day
Article Abstract:
An investigation was undertaken to find whether sailfin molly females copy the choice of other females when they are prevented from copying immediately after observing a model female next to a previously nonpreferred male. The conclusion states that females remember individual males with whom a model female had interacted, even after one day.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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