Social influences on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticula: Generalized and repeatable trait-copying behavior
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The mating preferences of individual females can be flexible and the probability of a female mating with a particular male can be significantly increased. The result provides empirical evidence for social enhancement of female preference for particular phenotypic traits of chosen males rather than for the particular males possessing those traits, and thus have important implications for understanding of the role of social learning in the evolution of female mating preferences and of male epigamic traits.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2005
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Female Japanese quail affiliate with live males that they have seen mate on video
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A study was conducted, using a thin-film transistor (TFT) monitor, to determine whether female Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica, would copy the mate choices of female conspecifics. The result shows that the sequences of either a target male standing alone or a randomly selected male courting and mating did not subsequently increase the time they spent near a live target male.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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Female Japanese quail that eavesdrop on fighting males prefer losers to winners
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Four experiments were conducted to examine the relationship between male dominance and female preference in Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica. The results suggest that the relatively less dominant males that female prefer as affiliative partners are less likely than are more dominant males to court in ways that could be harmful to females.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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