Bower quality, number of decorations and mating success of male satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus): an experimental analysis
@article{Borgia1985BowerQN,
title={Bower quality, number of decorations and mating success of male satin bowerbirds (Ptilonorhynchus violaceus): an experimental analysis},
author={Gerald Borgia},
journal={Animal Behaviour},
year={1985},
volume={33},
pages={266-271}
}250 Citations
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Results show that male interactions are important in determining differences in the quality of display among male satin bower-birds, and are consistent with the view that females use bowers as indicators of male quality in mate choice.
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It was found that a male's mating success was significantly related to his size and the rate at which he ‘painted’ his bower with saliva and chewed up plant material.
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The results suggest that the numbers of decorations at bowers are an honest signal of the male's ability to defend his display site from rivals in at least one population of the great bowerbird (Townsville), but they do not support the social control hypothesis because males at both sites failed to limit signal expression.
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It is concluded that levels of parasitic infection are not now an important direct cause of intermale variation in mating success, and the hypothesis that the ability to hold a bower may be an indicator of male condition to females is supported.
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