ArticleBiology letters2016
The couple that sings together stays together: duetting, aggression and extra-pair paternity in a promiscuous bird species.
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- Who you live with and what you duet for: a review of the function of primate duets in relation to their social organization.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2024Review
- Long-Distance Counter Calling in Maned Wolves: Friends or Foes?Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- The many functions of vocal learning.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- How does cognition shape social relationships?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2018Review
- Emotional and Interactional Prosody across Animal Communication Systems: A Comparative Approach to the Emergence of Language.Frontiers in psychology · 2016Review
- Analysis of within-individual variation in extrapair paternity in blue tits (Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
When individuals mate outside the pair bond, males should employ behaviours such as aggression or vocal displays (e.g. duetting) that help assure paternity of the offspring they care for. We tested whether male paternity was associated with aggression or duetting in the red-backed fairy-wren, a species exhibiting high rates of extra-pair paternity. During simulated territorial intrusions, aggression and duetting were variable among and repeatable within males, suggesting behavioural consistency of individuals. Males with quicker and stronger duet responses were cuckolded less often than males with slower and weaker responses. In contrast, physical aggression was not correlated with male paternity. These results suggest that either acoustic mate guarding or male-female vocal negotiations via duetting lead to increased paternity assurance, whereas physical aggression does not.
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