Female mate choice based upon male motor performance
Female mate choice based upon male motor performance
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DOI：
10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.01.009
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发表时间：
2010-04-01
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2.5
通讯作者：
Podos, Jeffrey
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作者：
Byers, John;Hebets, Eileen;Podos, Jeffrey
我们在这篇文章中的目的是回顾女性通过评估男性的运动表现来选择配偶的假设。我们将运动表现定义为活力，即反复进行能量消耗大的动作的能力，或者将其定义为技能，即出色完成困难运动任务的能力。运动表现反映了与生存有关的整个生物体表现的大多数方面，因此应该比装饰品更可靠地表明个体男性的遗传质量和/或发育历史。在许多动物类群中，雄性的性表现包含了活力和/或技巧的元素，越来越多的证据表明，在自然界中，雌性是根据对雄性运动表现的评价来选择配偶的。我们注意到，在许多物种中，雄性装饰物都伴随着引人注目的运动展示，我们认为装饰物通常是次要的，作为一种增强雄性运动表现的明显技能或活力的方式。需要更多更好的方法来衡量男性的活力和技能，也需要对女性进行这类辨别的能力进行进一步的研究。(C) 2010动物行为研究协会。Elsevier Ltd.出版。版权所有。
Our goal in this essay is to review the hypothesis that females choose mates by the evaluation of male motor performance. We define motor performance as vigour, the ability to perform energetically expensive acts repeatedly, or as skill, the ability to perform difficult motor tasks well. Motor performance reflects most aspects of whole-organism performance that relate to survival, and thus should indicate, more reliably than ornaments do, individual male genetic quality and/or developmental history. Male sexual displays in many animal taxa contain elements of vigour and/or skill, and accumulating evidence suggests that females choose mates in nature based upon their evaluations of male motor performance. We note that male ornaments in many species are accompanied by conspicuous motor display, and we propose that ornaments often arise secondarily as a way to enhance the apparent skill or vigour of male motor performance. More and better methods to measure male vigour and skill are needed, as well as additional studies on the abilities of females to make discriminations of this type. (C) 2010 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.