scholarly journals Stallion Mate Choice and Mare Sexual Behaviour in a Herd of Sorraia Horses (Equus caballus)

ISRN Zoology ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2011 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Filipa Paiva Brandão Deslandes Heitor ◽  
Luís António Matos Vicente
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Equus Caballus ◽  
Individual Factors ◽  
Male Mate Choice ◽  
Breeding Experience ◽  
Male Mate ◽  
The Relationship

We examined the relationship between male mate choice, female sexual behaviour, and individual factors in a managed group of Sorraia horses. The herd comprised 9–11 adult mares and their foals. Two stallions were introduced into the mare group in different years for pasture breeding. Mare receptivity during oestrus was poorly correlated with individual factors. Stallions did not prefer to mate with mares that showed the greatest behavioural receptivity during oestrus. The older and more experienced stallion preferred to mate with the older, higher-ranking, or barren oestrous mares. The younger stallion preferred to mate with the more genetically related mares and showed higher oestrus discrimination of mares to who he kept proximity during oestrus. Mate choice was not associated with probability of foaling in the following year. The differential influence of individual factors on mate choice between the stallions could stem from differences in breeding experience and familiarity with the mares.

A study of mate choice in mice with experimental Taenia crassiceps cysticercosis: can males choose?

2004 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 635-643 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Ernest François Gourbal ◽  
Claude Gabrion
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Sexual Behaviour ◽  
Female Mate Choice ◽  
Choice Test ◽  
Male Mate Choice ◽  
Dyadic Interactions ◽  
Taenia Crassiceps ◽  
Male Mate ◽  
Mating Choice ◽  
Additional Support

The detection and avoidance of infected males has been proposed as a component of female mate choice. However, male mate choice and sexual behaviour in the face of infected females have been rarely investigated. Here, we assessed the exact role displayed by each protagonist in mate choice during experimental Taenia crassiceps (Zeder, 1800) Rudolphi, 1810 cysticercosis. Mate choice was studied at two levels: (1) based on animal odour cues, using a two-choice test and (2) during dyadic interactions, using sexual behaviour and courtship analysis, but also ultrasonic vocalization recordings. Our results showed that female BALB/c mice (Mus musculus L., 1758) spent more time investigating odours in the two-choice test than males, but they were also able to repel infected males during dyadic interactions. Males did not display a clear mating choice with female odours, but during dyadic sexual interactions, they showed a significant aggressiveness towards infected females. Males were able to refrain from copulating with infected females. As shown by a number of studies on female mice, males were able to detect, select, and avoid infected females, and thus express a real mate choice. These observations provided an additional support to the sperm/ejaculate cost and male mate-choice hypothesis.

Male mate choice in the annual killifish Millerichthys robustus and its relationship with female polymorphism, size and fecundity

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Omar Domínguez-Castanedo ◽  
Tessy M. Muñoz-Campos ◽  
Stefano Valdesalici ◽  
Sharon Valdez-Carbajal ◽  
Carlos Passos
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Male Mate Choice ◽  
Annual Killifish ◽  
Female Polymorphism ◽  
Male Mate

scholarly journals The evolution of postpairing male mate choice

Evolution ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 1465-1477 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nan Lyu ◽  
Maria R. Servedio ◽  
Huw Lloyd ◽  
Yue-Hua Sun
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Male Mate Choice ◽  
Male Mate

How Likely Is Male Mate Choice Among Anurans?

Behaviour ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 132 (9-10) ◽  
pp. 643-664 ◽  
Author(s):  
James J. Krupa
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Male Mate Choice ◽  
Male Mate

Male mate choice favors more colorful females in the gift-giving cabbage butterfly

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (9) ◽  
pp. 1539-1547 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natasha Tigreros ◽  
Monica A. Mowery ◽  
Sara M. Lewis
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Male Mate Choice ◽  
Gift Giving ◽  
Cabbage Butterfly ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Male Mate

scholarly journals No male mate choice for female boldness in a bi-parental West African cichlid, the rainbow krib (Pelvicachromis pulcher)

PeerJ ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. e5373 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ulrike Scherer ◽  
Wiebke Schuett
Keyword(s):  
Mate Choice ◽  
Parental Species ◽  
Reproductive Investment ◽  
West African ◽  
Choice Test ◽  
Male Mating ◽  
Male Mate Choice ◽  
African Cichlid ◽  
Personality Differences ◽  
Male Mate

Background In many species, males have a lower reproductive investment than females and are therefore assumed to increase their fitness with a high number of matings rather than by being choosy. However, in bi-parental species, also males heavily invest into reproduction. Here, reproductive success largely depends on costly parental care; with style and amount of parental effort in several cases being associated with personality differences (i.e., consistent between-individual differences in behaviour). Nonetheless, very little is known about the effect of personality differences on (male) mate choice in bi-parental species. Methods In the present study, we tested male mate choice for the level and consistency of female boldness in the rainbow krib, Pelviachromis pulcher, a bi-parental and territorial West African cichlid. Individual boldness was assumed to indicate parental quality because it affects parental defence behaviour. For all males and females, boldness was assessed twice as the activity under simulated predation risk. Mate choice trials were conducted in two steps. First, we let a male observe two females expressing their boldness. Then, the male could choose between these two females in a standard mate choice test. Results We tested for a male preference for behavioural (dis-)similarity vs. a directional preference for boldness but our data support the absence of effects of male and/or female boldness (level and consistency) on male mating preference. Discussion Our results suggest female personality differences in boldness may not be selected for via male mate choice.

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