An estimate of female mate searching costs in the lekking butterfly Coenonympha pamphilus

1997 ◽  
Vol 40 (5) ◽  
pp. 321-328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Per-Olof Wickman ◽  
Peter Jansson
Keyword(s):  
Mate Searching ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Coenonympha Pamphilus

scholarly journals Diel variation in a dynamic sexual display and its association with female mate-searching behaviour

2007 ◽  
Vol 275 (1634) ◽  
pp. 579-585 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alain Jacot ◽  
Hannes Scheuber ◽  
Barbara Holzer ◽  
Oliver Otti ◽  
Martin W.G Brinkhof
Keyword(s):  
Diel Variation ◽  
Mate Searching ◽  
Searching Behaviour ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Sexual Display

scholarly journals Not what it looks like: mate-searching behaviour, mate preferences and clutch production in wandering and territory-holding female fiddler crabs

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (8) ◽  
pp. 160339 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Peso ◽  
E. Curran ◽  
P. R. Y. Backwell
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Fiddler Crab ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Mate Preferences ◽  
Fiddler Crabs ◽  
Mate Searching ◽  
Searching Behaviour ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Predator Behaviour

Risks inherent in mate-searching have led to the assumption that females moving sequentially through populations of courting males are sexually receptive, but this may not be true. We examined two types of fiddler crab females: wanderers moving through the population of courting males and residents that were occupying and defending their own territories. Sometimes residents leave territories to look for new burrows and we simulated this by displacing wanderers and residents and observing their behaviour while wandering. We predicted that the displaced wanderers would exhibit more mate-searching behaviours than resident females. However, wandering and resident females behaved nearly identically, displaying mate-searching behaviours and demonstrating matching mate preferences. Also, males behaved the same way towards both female types and similar proportions of wanderers and residents stayed in a male's burrow to mate. But more wanderers than residents produced egg clutches when choosing a burrow containing a male, suggesting females should be categorized as receptive and non-receptive. Visiting and rejecting several males is not the defining feature of female mate choice. Moving across the mudflat by approaching and leaving a succession of burrows (mostly occupied by males) is an adaptive anti-predator behaviour that is useful in the contexts of mate-searching and territory-searching.

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

Female Choice in Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella Ochotensis)

The Auk ◽  
1986 ◽  
Vol 103 (4) ◽  
pp. 694-700 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hisashi Nagata
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Female Choice ◽  
Morphological Characteristics ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Food Abundance ◽  
Territory Size ◽  
Territory Quality ◽  
Female Mate ◽  
Nest Sites ◽  
Grasshopper Warbler

Abstract Morphological and territorial factors that influence female mate choice were examined in the monogamous Middendorff's Grasshopper-Warbler (Locustella ochotensis) on an islet near Fukuoka, Japan. I assumed that pairing date corresponded with female mate choice. Pairing date was correlated with both territory size and food abundance but was not correlated with selected morphological characteristics of males. Territorial quality was assumed to be correlated with territory size because preferable food resources and nest sites were distributed randomly. I conclude that female mate choice was influenced by territory quality rather than by the morphological characteristics of males.

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