Journal article
Sexual experience can affect use of public information in mate choice
Abstract
The mate choices of sexually experienced, female Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica, are influenced by information acquired by observation of potential partners engaging in social interactions. Female quail show an increased preference both for males that they have seen mate with another female and for the less aggressive of a pair of males that they have watched interact aggressively. We examined effects of females' prior sexual experience on …
Authors
Ophir AG; Galef BG
Journal
Animal Behaviour, Vol. 68, No. 5, pp. 1221–1227
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
November 2004
DOI
10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.12.023
ISSN
0003-3472