Female finches prefer courtship signals indicating male vigor and neuromuscular ability.

Female songbirds use male song to discriminate among individuals and evaluate their quality as potential mates. Previous behavioral experiments in many species, including the species studied here, have shown that females will solicit copulation in response to song even if no male is present. Those d...

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Main Authors: Jeffery L Dunning, Santosh Pant, Karagh Murphy, Jonathan F Prather
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2020-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226580