Journal article
Female Japanese quail affiliate with live males that they have seen mate on video
Abstract
A female Japanese quail, Coturnix japonica, will increase her tendency to affiliate and mate with a conspecific male after seeing him court and mate with another female. In the present study, we found that female quail increased the time they spent near a live target male after seeing that same male court and mate with another female in a 5-min video displayed on an active-matrix TFT monitor. However, female quail that were shown 5-min video …
Authors
Ophir AG; Galef BG
Journal
Animal Behaviour, Vol. 66, No. 2, pp. 369–375
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
August 2003
DOI
10.1006/anbe.2003.2229
ISSN
0003-3472