Why do female pied flycatchers mate with already mated males: deception or restricted mate sampling?

1994 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tore Slagsvold ◽  
Svein Dale
Keyword(s):  
Mate Sampling

A Large Cost of Female Mate Sampling in Pronghorn

2005 ◽  
Vol 166 (6) ◽  
pp. 661
Author(s):  
Byers ◽  
Wiseman ◽  
Jones ◽  
Roffe
Keyword(s):  
Female Mate ◽  
Mate Sampling

A Large Cost of Female Mate Sampling in Pronghorn

2005 ◽  
Vol 166 (6) ◽  
pp. 661-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
John A. Byers ◽  
Patryce A. Wiseman ◽  
Lee Jones ◽  
Thomas J. Roffe
Keyword(s):  
Female Mate ◽  
Mate Sampling

Sex Roles and Mutual Mate Choice Matter during Mate Sampling

2012 ◽  
Vol 179 (6) ◽  
pp. 741-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lise Cats Myhre ◽  
Karen de Jong ◽  
Elisabet Forsgren ◽  
Trond Amundsen
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Sex Roles ◽  
Mutual Mate Choice ◽  
Mate Sampling

Mate sampling behaviour of black grouse females (Tetrao tetrix)

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 209-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pekka T. Rintamäki ◽  
Rauno V Alatalo ◽  
Jacob Höglund ◽  
Arne Lundberg
Keyword(s):  
Black Grouse ◽  
Tetrao Tetrix ◽  
Mate Sampling

Why is Female Choice not Unanimous? Insights from Costly Mate Sampling in Marine Iguanas

Ethology ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 107 (7) ◽  
pp. 623-638 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin Wikelski ◽  
Chris Carbone ◽  
Peter A. Bednekoff ◽  
Sharmila Choudhury ◽  
Sabine Tebbich
Keyword(s):  
Female Choice ◽  
Marine Iguanas ◽  
Mate Sampling

Density-dependent plasticity of sequential mate choice in a bushcricket (Orthoptera:Tettigoniidae)

2007 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gerlind U. C. Lehmann
Keyword(s):  
Population Density ◽  
Mate Choice ◽  
High Density ◽  
High Population Density ◽  
Mating Period ◽  
Search Behaviour ◽  
Accessory Glands ◽  
Sequential Mate Choice ◽  
Mate Sampling ◽  
Copulation Attempt

Mate choice is a common phenomenon in animals and several factors have been proposed as being involved in the acceptance or rejection of a partner. I investigated the effect of population density on the mate-sampling behaviour of female Xederra charactus (bushcrickets). In my study, female bushcrickets adjusted the tactic of sequential mate sampling in response to mate density, visiting a series of up to five different males per night. Under low-density conditions, females visited fewer males in a night and were less likely to reject a copulation attempt than females under high-density conditions. Rejection of a male occurred during 29% of copulations in areas of high population density, but during only 8% in areas of low population density. Moreover, at low densities, females were less likely to reject mates later in the night, which can be interpreted as a reaction to the time constraints of a finite nightly mating period. Females in high-density populations also more often chose males with a higher mass of the spermatophore-producing accessory glands. Due to such choice, females might receive a larger nuptial gift at mating. These results are consistent with tactical models of search behaviour in which females adjust their behaviour to the number of potential mates and the length of the mating period.

scholarly journals Mate sampling and choosiness in the sand goby

2013 ◽  
Vol 280 (1765) ◽  
pp. 20130983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kai Lindström ◽  
Topi K. Lehtonen
Keyword(s):  
Sand Goby ◽  
Mate Sampling

From Preferences to Choices

Mate Choice ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gil G. Rosenthal
Keyword(s):  
Heuristic Rules ◽  
Cognitive Constraints ◽  
Sampling Schemes ◽  
Mate Assessment ◽  
Fitness Consequences ◽  
Influential Paper ◽  
Decision Mechanisms ◽  
Mate Sampling ◽  
Decision Algorithms

This chapter focuses on mate sampling and on how choosers decide among sampled mates. The thinking in this regard has largely focused on the fitness consequences for courters and choosers. For courters, how does mate sampling affect choosiness and therefore variance in courter fitness, and how do courters exploit sampling and decision mechanisms? For choosers, how does fitness depend on different putative sampling schemes and decision algorithms? Much of this literature flows back to an influential paper that explored the fitness consequences of several hypothetical sampling schemes. The chapter describes what we know about the heuristic rules that animals use to evaluate finite pools of courters, and about the cognitive constraints underlying mate assessment and comparisons among mates.

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