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Mate choice occurs only in small choruses of painted reed frogs hyperolius marmoratus
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This is the first time that frequency-based mate-choice by female anurans has been associated with chorus size, and hence with the sonic complexity of the acoustic environment.Abstract:
In two-choice discrimination experiments, females of Hyperolius marmoratus preferred the calls of lower frequency of the pair of stimuli. This preference was not shown in mating patterns observed in natural choruses, but is when females are phonotactically orienting in small choruses in an experimental enclosure. With an increase in chorus size, the mating pattern shifts from size-based, non-random (with some evidence of size-assortative) mating to random mating. This is the first time that frequency-based mate-choice by female anurans has been associated with chorus size, and hence with the sonic complexity of the acoustic environment.read more
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Variation in mate choice and mating preferences: a review of causes and consequences.
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The evolution of vocalization in frogs and toads
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The Behavioral Ecology of Anuran Communication
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Female mate choice in the gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor in three experimental environments
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Background noise from a natural chorus alters female discrimination of male calls in a neotropical frog.
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TL;DR: Moderate levels of natural background sound reduced a female's ability to discriminate between males' calls even when she could detect them, justifying recent theoretical analyses of the importance of receivers' errors in the evolution of communication.
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Female mate choice in a neotropical frog.
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Sexual selection and resource-accruing abilities in anolis garmani.
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Optimal mate selection in the toad Bufo bufo
Nicholas B. Davies,Tim Halliday +1 more
TL;DR: It is reported here that, in the wild, toads (Bufo bufo) do not pair up at random, that this comes about through male–male competition probably influenced by the behaviour of the female and that mating involves a compromise between different male and female optima.
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