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Mate Guarding in a Caribbean Village
Behavioral observation, economic, and genealogical data collected in a rural Trinidadian village indicate: (1) males courting the same females have higher rates of agonistic interactions (e.g., arguing, fighting) with each other than they do with other mates; (2) females courting the same males do not have higher rates of agonistic interactions with each other than they do with other females; (...
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.08.007 0003-3472/© 2014 The Association for the Study of A Mate guarding is one of the most common tactics in sperm competition. Males are expected to guard their mates when costs of guarding (accrued from physical confrontations with rivals and/or reduced foraging) are low relative to the benefits of ensuring mating opportunities and paternity. We inves...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Ethology and Sociobiology
سال: 1988
ISSN: 0162-3095
DOI: 10.1016/0162-3095(88)90002-7