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A prominent interaction in the lives of social mammals is allogrooming. Individuals allogroom strategically and preferentially,
grooming high-quality individuals that control access to resources. This results in distinct patterns of allogrooming within
social groups, such that some individuals are groomed more than the others, some dyads express symmetry in allogrooming, and
others exchange allogrooming for other benefits. Allopreening, the avian equivalent of allogrooming, occurs commonly in group-living
birds, providing the opportunity to test whether social birds also use allopreening strategically in their social relationships.
I examined this hypothesis in family-living buff-breasted wrens (Cantorchilus leucotis) by examining allopreening initiation, reciprocation and rate during interactions involving breeding adults and offspring.
Buff-breasted wrens exhibit a nuclear family structure in which pairs display long-term partnerships, and juveniles delay
dispersing from natal territories for about 10 months. Allopreening was symmetrical between breeding partners: males and females
who initiated and reciprocated allopreening of partners with similar frequency, and within reciprocated bouts, allopreening
was time-matched. Pairs in which allopreening was not observed were more likely to divorce, but allopreening patterns did
not change in successive years of partnerships. Parent–offspring allopreening, by contrast, was asymmetrical in pattern; parents
initiated allopreening more than their offspring, and reciprocation never occurred. The different patterns of allopreening
observed within buff-breasted wren families suggest the strategic use of allopreening, possibly for the maintenance of long-term
partnerships and in exchange for social benefits from offspring. 相似文献
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Marc Naguib 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1997,40(6):385-393
Male territorial song birds are usually spaced far apart and most often hear conspecific song after it has been degraded
by propagation through the environment. Their ability to use the degradation of songs to assess the distance of a singing
rival without approaching (called ranging) presumably increases the efficiency of defending a territory. In order to assess
degradation in a song the receiver needs to compare the characteristics of the received song to its characteristics at the
source or at different distances. Earlier experiments on ranging in species with song repertoires have suggested that prior
familiarity with the particular song type is necessary for ranging. Here I show that male Carolina wrens (Thryothorus ludovicianus) can use either temporal or spectral characteristics for ranging song types which they were unlikely to have heard previously.
Playbacks consisting of only one song prevented subjects' close-range experience with the loudspeaker, and flights beyond
the loudspeaker provided direct evidence for over-assessment of distance when songs were degraded. Because ranging of songs
was not affected by the degree of familiarity with the song type, this experiment provides no evidence that song repertoires
hinder ranging in Carolina wrens, as suggested by Morton's ranging hypothesis. Instead, at least approximate ranging of songs
is evidently possible by assessment of degradation in general features of a species' songs.
Received: 9 August 1996 / Accepted after revision: 15 February 1997 相似文献
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In signalling interactions, animals can directly address information to a specific individual. Vocal overlapping is such a
signalling strategy used in songbirds, anurans, and insects. In songbirds, numerous studies using high rates of song overlap
to simulate an escalating situation have shown that song overlapping is perceived as a threatening signal by interacting and
by listening (eavesdropping) individuals, indicating a high social relevance of song overlapping. Here we present a playback
experiment on nocturnally singing male territorial nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos). Using three different rates of song overlap (1, 25, or 50%), we tested whether or not lower levels of song overlapping
act as a signal of aggressive intent and if birds would increase the intensity of their response with increasing level of
song overlapping. Subjects did not vary song duration in response to the different playback treatments but increasingly interrupted
their singing with increasing overlap by the three playback treatments. The effects persisted even after the playback ceased
to overlap and switched to an alternating singing mode. These results expand on previous studies by showing that song overlapping
is interpreted as an aggressive signal even when it is used at low or moderate levels. They suggest that, within the range
tested here, increasing levels of song overlapping are perceived to be increasingly aggressive. 相似文献
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Susan C. Grana Scott K. Sakaluk Rachel M. Bowden Melissa A. Doellman Laura A. Vogel Charles F. Thompson 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2012,66(9):1247-1258
The differential allocation hypothesis proposes that females mated to attractive males should invest more resources in their offspring than those mated to less-attractive males, whereas the compensation hypothesis posits that females mated to less-attractive males should invest more resources in their offspring to compensate for lower-quality young. We tested these hypotheses by manipulating attractiveness of male house wrens (Troglodytes aedon) prior to female arrival by adding extra nest sites to territories of some males while leaving control males with only a single nest site. Females laid their eggs sooner in the nests of attractive males, and attractive males were more likely to retain their territory over successive broods and were marginally more likely to obtain a mate for a second brood later in the season than were control males, thereby confirming the effect of our manipulation on male attractiveness. Experimentally enhanced attractiveness also led to increased hematocrit in males. However, there were no consistent differences in the number, size, or quality of eggs laid by females mated to attractive and control males, nor were there any differences in the size, health state, or immune function of nestlings produced from these eggs. There was also no effect of treatment on the number of nestlings surviving to fledging. Collectively, these results are inconsistent with both the differential allocation hypothesis and the compensation hypothesis. Future studies should consider the possibility that the criteria used by females in selecting a mate may vary temporally and be more flexible than generally thought. 相似文献
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We removed the mates of ten male black-capped chickadees (Pares atricapillus) during the nest-building period to determine the effect of female presence on dawn singing. During the first dawn chorus following mate removal, males sang significantly longer, increased movement within their territory, and increased the percentage of their territory covered while singing. After the female was returned, these parameters returned to the pre-removal values. Males did not alter the frequency range or modal frequency of their songs when the mate was removed, nor did they change the degree of frequency shifting in the fee-bee song. We conclude that dawn singing in the black-capped chickadee acts, in part, as an intersexual signal, and that the behavior of frequency shifting in the song may be directed more toward rival males than females.
Correspondence to: K. Otter 相似文献
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Leonard A. Freed 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》1986,19(3):197-206
Summary Tropical house wrens in lowland central Panama are, with rare exception, permanently monogamous. During a 3-year demographic study of 54–56 pairs of these brids, both males and females committed infanticide in association with takeover of breeding territories. New males and new females replaced previously identified (color-banded) parents before the termination of parental care in 13% of 328 breeding attempts. Replacement was accomplished by physical takeover in at least some if not all cases. Total nest failure at the egg, nestling, or fledgling stage occurred in 73% of the male replacements and 70% of the female replacements. Nest predation was excluded as a possible cause of nest failure. 76% of male replacements and 50% of female replacements bred in the same season. Infanticidal replacement males bred sooner than did non-infanticidal males arriving at similar stages of the nesting cycle. Contexts in which infanticide occurred included takeovers by first-year males and females of territories and mates, re-entry into the breeding population by males that had recently lost their mates, acquisition of neighboring females by bigamous males, and the elimination of one female of a bigamous male by the other. Sexually selected infanticide in these birds is promoted by a lengthy breeding season and extremely limited breeding opportunities for individuals not already part of the breeding population. Mate limitation appears to be more important than habitat or nestsite limitation in restricting new breeding opportunities once the breeding season has begun. 相似文献
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Among sedentary species, mate and site fidelity may be imposed by year-round territoriality and high annual survivorship, both of which theoretically lead to few opportunities to move between mates and breeding territories. We examined mate and territory fidelity in sedentary neotropical buff-breasted wrens (Thryothorus leucotis) in relation to the opportunities to divorce (vacancies on neighbouring territories), breeding experience and site of origin (within vs outside local breeding population). Overall, buff-breasted wrens showed high rates of mate and territory fidelity between years, with individuals significantly more faithful to their territories than to their partners. Mate and territory fidelity was not forced upon buff-breasted wrens, as most individuals had opportunities to switch mates and territories. However, this was not uniform among all individuals. Individuals that had bred together displayed 100% mate and territory fidelity despite the fact that males and females in almost all experienced pairs had opportunities to switch mates and territories. Local recruits (philopatric offspring that acquired territories in the local breeding population) also displayed mate and territory fidelity, but fidelity occurred because recruits rarely had the opportunity to divorce prior to initiating their first breeding attempt. By contrast, almost half of all territorial individuals that originated outside the local breeding population (immigrants) had opportunity to divorce, with approximately two thirds of them switching mates and territories. Divorces occurred within the first 5 months of pairing, suggesting that immigrants may have sampled mates and territories before forming permanent partnerships. 相似文献
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Glucocorticoids affect physiology and behaviour, reproduction and potentially sexual selection as well. Short-term and moderate
glucocorticoid elevations are suggested to be adaptive, and prolonged and high elevations may be extremely harmful. This suggests
that optimal reproductive strategies, and thus sexual selection, may be dose dependent. Here, we investigate effects of moderate
and high elevations of blood corticosterone levels on intra- and intersexual behaviour and mating success of male common lizards
Lacerta vivipara. Females showed less interest and more aggressive behaviour towards high corticosterone males and blood corticosterone levels
affected male reproductive strategy. Males of moderate and high corticosterone elevations, compared with Control males, showed
increased interest (i.e., higher number of chases, tongue extrusions, and approaches) towards females and high corticosterone
males initiated more copulation attempts. However, neither increased male interest nor increased copulation attempts resulted
in more copulations. This provides evidence for a best-of-a-bad-job strategy, where males with higher corticosterone levels
compensated for reduced female interest and increased aggressive female behaviour directed towards them, by showing higher
interest and by conducting more copulation attempts. Blood corticosterone levels affected intrasexual selection as well since
moderate corticosterone levels positively affected male dominance, but dominance did not affect mating success. These findings
underline the importance of female mate choice and are in line with adaptive compensatory behaviours of males. They further
show that glucocorticoid effects on behaviour are dose dependent and that they have important implications for sexual selection
and social interactions, and might potentially affect Darwinian fitness. 相似文献
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Recent attempts to integrate function and mechanism have resulted in an appreciation of the relevance of forager psychology
to understanding the functional aspects of foraging behaviour. Conversely, an acknowledgement of the functional diversity
of learning mechanisms has led to greater understanding of the adaptive nature of cognition. In this paper, we present data
from three experiments suggesting that noisy miner birds use different cognitive strategies when searching for foods with
different distributions. When searching for nectar, an immobile, readily depleted resource, birds spontaneously attend to
fine-scale spatial information and use a spatial memory-based strategy that is efficient in a novel context and largely resistant
to disruptions to movement. When searching for invertebrates, a mobile, clumped and cryptic resource, birds employ a strategy
whose efficiency increases with increased task familiarity, is vulnerable to disruptions to their movement and may rely more
on memory for movement rules than memory for location information. Previous reports of adapted cognition have reported performance
differences between species (for example, better spatial cognitive performance in storing versus non-storing birds). Ours
is the first study to demonstrate that differences in cognitive strategy (as opposed to just enhanced performance) occur within
a single species in different foraging contexts. As well as providing an example of how specially adapted cognitive mechanisms
might work, our data further emphasise the importance of jointly considering functional and mechanistic aspects to fully understand
the adaptive complexities of behaviour. 相似文献
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We present a model of error-prone female choice on leks, and investigate the effects of different degrees of error on the
distribution of mating success among males present at leks of different sizes. At higher levels of error, the best male is
predicted to gain a smaller share of matings, while low-ranking males gain a larger share. Males who are of high rank but
not the most desirable on the lek do best at intermediate levels of error, since the top-ranked male does not then claim all
the matings, but assessment is still sufficiently accurate for females to discriminate between high-ranking and low-ranking
competitors. The effects of error are shown to be more pronounced on larger leks, due to smaller expected differences in mating
value between males of adjacent ranks. This interaction between lek size and error suggests that observed negative relationships
between lek size and mating skew need not be attributed solely to intrasexual competition, as previously suggested, but could
also be a result of imperfect choice.
Received: 20 February 1998 / Accepted after revision: 25 October 1998 相似文献
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Trevor McIntyre Horst Bornemann Joachim Plötz Cheryl A. Tosh Marthán N. Bester 《Marine Biology》2011,158(9):2125-2139
The at-sea behaviour of marine top predators provides valuable insights into the distribution of prey species and strategies
used by predators to exploit patchily distributed resources. We describe the water column usage and dive strategies of female
southern elephant seals from Marion Island tracked between 2004 and 2008. Dives representing increases in forage effort were
identified using a method that combines dive type analyses and the calculation of relative amounts of time that animals spend
in the bottom phases of dives. Results from this analysis indicate that female elephant seals from Marion Island tend to display
lower levels of forage effort closer to the island and display intensive opportunistic forage bouts that occur at a minimum
distance of approximately 215 km from the island. Females from Marion Island dived deeper and for longer periods of time,
compared to females from other populations. Most animals displayed positive diel vertical migration, evidently foraging pelagically
on vertically migrating prey. A few animals displayed periods of reverse (negative) diel vertical migration, however, diving
to deeper depths at night, compared to daytime. This behaviour is difficult to explain and prey species targeted during such
periods unknown. Our results illustrate plasticity in foraging behaviour of southern elephant seals, as well as inter-population
differences in forage strategies. 相似文献
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Ayesha I. T. Tulloch Micha V. Jackson Elisa Bayraktarov Alexander R. Carey Diego F. Correa-Gomez Michael Driessen Ian C. Gynther Mel Hardie Katherine Moseby Liana Joseph Harriet Preece Andrés Felipe Suarez-Castro Stephanie Stuart John C. Z. Woinarski Hugh P. Possingham 《Conservation biology》2023,37(2):e14032
Monitoring is critical to assess management effectiveness, but broadscale systematic assessments of monitoring to evaluate and improve recovery efforts are lacking. We compiled 1808 time series from 71 threatened and near-threatened terrestrial and volant mammal species and subspecies in Australia (48% of all threatened mammal taxa) to compare relative trends of populations subject to different management strategies. We adapted the Living Planet Index to develop the Threatened Species Index for Australian Mammals and track aggregate trends for all sampled threatened mammal populations and for small (<35 g), medium (35–5500 g), and large mammals (>5500 g) from 2000 to 2017. Unmanaged populations (42 taxa) declined by 63% on average; unmanaged small mammals exhibited the greatest declines (96%). Populations of 17 taxa in havens (islands and fenced areas that excluded or eliminated introduced red foxes [Vulpes vulpes] and domestic cats [Felis catus]) increased by 680%. Outside havens, populations undergoing sustained predator baiting initially declined by 75% but subsequently increased to 47% of their abundance in 2000. At sites where predators were not excluded or baited but other actions (e.g., fire management, introduced herbivore control) occurred, populations of small and medium mammals declined faster, but large mammals declined more slowly, than unmanaged populations. Only 13% of taxa had data for both unmanaged and managed populations; index comparisons for this subset showed that taxa with populations increasing inside havens declined outside havens but taxa with populations subject to predator baiting outside havens declined more slowly than populations with no management and then increased, whereas unmanaged populations continued to decline. More comprehensive and improved monitoring (particularly encompassing poorly represented management actions and taxonomic groups like bats and small mammals) is required to understand whether and where management has worked. Improved implementation of management for threats other than predation is critical to recover Australia's threatened mammals. 相似文献
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Julianna L. Johns J. Andrew Roberts David L. Clark George W. Uetz 《Behavioral ecology and sociobiology》2009,64(1):13-18
Evolutionary conflicts of interest between the sexes are common, as mating tactics and strategies that increase fitness benefits
for one sex may incur costs for the other. As a consequence, antagonistic coevolution between the sexes often results in a
complex arms race between male persistence and female resistance. Coercive mating (e.g., forced copulation) likely benefits
males by increasing the probability of mating; however, costs to females may be high, including injury or even death. Here,
we report on a study of the use of fangs by males of the wolf spider Schizocosa ocreata (Hentz) during forcible mating with resistant females, which results in hemolymph loss and scar tissue formation in females.
Microscopic inspection revealed that fang wounds (evidenced by scar tissue) were absent on unmated (virgin) females but were
found on mated females and were significantly more frequent in coercively mated females. Experimental fang immobilization
studies found no difference in copulation success between experimental (fangs immobilized) and control (sham manipulation)
males. However, males that had use of their fangs had significantly longer copulation duration. These findings represent a
previously unknown male mating tactic in spiders and an unrecognized potential cost of mating for female spiders. 相似文献
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Summary Adult male tree lizards, Urosaurus ornatus, practise alternative (territorial or sneaker/satellite) reproductive strategies that are correlated with differences in throat color and body size. In this study we raised tree lizards from hatching in the laboratory to examine the question of whether the phenotypic expression of secondary sex coloration and body size can be facultatively influenced by social or abiotic environmental factors. We compared males reared in the laboratory under different social and environmental conditions to males in the field and found no effect of different conditions on phenotypic differentiation (Figs. 2–4). Thus, phenotypic differences between morphs probably result largely from nonfacultative expression of different genotypes. This suggests that alternative male morphs practise a mixed evolutionary stable strategy (ESS) rather than one morph making the best of a bad situation. However, in the context of ESS theory it is difficult to explain our further result that the nonterritorial morph in this species grows faster and reaches a larger adult body size than the territorial morph (Fig. 5). 相似文献
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不同覆被下红壤坡地地表径流及其养分流失特征 总被引:11,自引:0,他引:11
通过对南方红壤坡地农作区、茶园、柑橘园、退化区和恢复区5种不同利用方式所产生的地表径流量的全年连续观测及其径流水中养分含量分析,结果表明:覆被植物群落类型单一化和农事耕作都能增加地表径流量、次数和增加养分流失,5种类型地表径流量不论是月平均径流量还是年总径流量,其大小关系为农作区*>茶园*>柑橘园>退化区>恢复区*,产流次数也是恢复区最少,其余4种类型基本一致;径流水中总P、K 、Ca2 、Mg2和SO42-流失量以农作区达到最大,茶园和柑橘园次之,然后是退化区和,恢复区的径流各养分流失量量少,耕作区的总P、K 、Ca2 、Mg2 和SO42-流失量大于非耕作区,覆被植物群落类型少的总P、K 、Ca2 、Mg2 和SO42-流失量大于覆被植物群落类型复杂.综合考虑,红壤坡地用来耕作可以加剧水土和土壤养分流失,自然植被对红壤坡地保持水土和养分效果最佳,如果种植经济价值较高的果林和药、茶、草等需采用复种方式,避免单一种植和减少人工扰动,以便维持坡地土壤利用的可持续性. 相似文献