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Male zebra finches have limited ability to identify high-fecundity females

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  • Daiping Wang
  • Nele Kempenaers
  • Bart Kempenaers
  • Wolfgang Forstmeier

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Lay Summary In species where males contribute substantially to parental care, males are expected to be choosy. Males should benefit from selecting a female of high fecundity, but it is unclear to what extent males are able to judge female fecundity before breeding. Here we show that male zebra finches seem to have only limited abilities to identify the better mate when faced with a choice between extremes in terms of female fecundity.

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  • Daiping Wang & Nele Kempenaers & Bart Kempenaers & Wolfgang Forstmeier, 2017. "Male zebra finches have limited ability to identify high-fecundity females," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 28(3), pages 784-792.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:28:y:2017:i:3:p:784-792.
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