Female Maylandia zebra prefer victorious males

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Authors

David Thomas Mellor, Catherine Tarsiewicz, Rebecca Jordan

Abstract

Females of a widespread species of the rock‐dwelling haplochromine cichlids of Lake Malawi, Maylandia zebra, show preference for males that successfully evict intruding males from their territory. This behaviour, experimentally induced by the investigators in a laboratory setting, was also preferred over males that were not permitted to interact with any other individual.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.32942/osf.io/ebdpa

Subjects

Animal Sciences, Behavior and Ethology, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Life Sciences, Terrestrial and Aquatic Ecology, Zoology

Keywords

female choice, Male-male competition, mbuna cichlid, sexual selection

Dates

Published: 2018-11-09 16:38

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CC-By Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International