Song repertoires and sexual selection in the Red-winged Blackbird
Tóm tắt
The female choice and male-male competition hypotheses for the evolution of song repertoires were tested by studying repertoire size, pairing success, reproductive experience, and territory size in the Red-winged Blackbird. Analysis of these variables produced the following results:
These results are consistent with the hypothesis that song repertoires in the Red-winged Blackbird evolved in response to male-male competition.
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