Female behaviour affects male courtship in whitethroats, Sylvia communis:: an interactive experiment using visual and acoustic cues
Female behaviour affects male courtship in whitethroats, Sylvia communis:: an interactive experiment using visual and acoustic cues
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DOI：
10.1006/anbe.2001.1920
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发表时间：
2002-02-01
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2.5
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Dabelsteen, T
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作者：
Balsby, TJS;Dabelsteen, T
未交配的雄性白喉鸟会用一种特殊的表演来向雌性求爱，雄性白喉鸟一边向雌性俯冲，一边唱着一种安静而复杂的歌，潜水歌。自然互动的观察表明，女性可以影响男性的求偶行为，使dscharp呼叫或泽呼叫，并作出短暂的跳跃对潜水男性。我们在一个互动实验中测试了这一点，跳跃和呼叫以不同的组合呈现给未交配的领土男性。跳跃是通过一个装在远程控制设备上的填充女性来呈现的，而呼叫则是通过放置在填充女性下方的扬声器来播放的。雌性的叫声和跳跃对雄性求偶有很强但不同的影响，Dscharp叫声的回放引起了雄性的注意，从而使它们更快地进行求偶，跳跃增加了潜水歌曲的数量，而Ze叫声导致更多的雄性试图与填充的雌性交配。(C)2002年，动物行为研究协会。
Unmated male whitethroats court females with a special display in which the male dives towards the female while singing a quiet and complex song, the diving song. Observations of natural interactions suggest that females can affect males' courtship behaviour by making dscharp-calls or ze-calls and by making short jumps towards the diving males. We tested this in an interactive experiment where jumps and calls were presented in different combinations to unmated territorial males. Jumps were presented by means of a stuffed female mounted on a remotely controlled device, and calls were played back from a speaker placed beneath the stuffed female. Female calls and jumps had a strong but differential effect on male courtship, Playback of dscharp-calls attracted the attention of males and hence caused them to perform courtship sooner and jumps increased the number of diving songs, whereas ze-calls resulted in more males attempting copulation with the stuffed female. (C) 2002 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour.