ArticleScientific reports2016
Sexual display complexity varies non-linearly with age and predicts breeding status in greater flamingos.
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- Feeding performance, kinematics and skills change with age in a granivorous songbird.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Age-Related Change in the Association Choices of Two Species of Juvenile Flamingos.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2023Article
- Allopreening in the Black-browed Albatross (The Ibis · 2021Article
- Senescence of song revealed by a long-term study of the Seychelles warbler (Acrocephalus sechellensis).Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Evolution and function of multimodal courtship displays.Ethology : formerly Zeitschrift fur Tierpsychologie · 2019Review
- Social and Physiological Context can Affect the Meaning of Physiological Synchrony.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Couples showing off: Audience promotes both male and female multimodal courtship display in a songbird.Science advances · 2018Article
- From flamingo dance to (desirable) drug discovery: a nature-inspired approach.Drug discovery today · 2017Review
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Abstract
The long-lived greater flamingo (Phoenicopterus roseus) is famous for performing conspicuous group displays during which adults try to acquire a new mate each year with varying success. We examined variation in the sexual display complexity (SDC) of wild flamingos aged between 4 and 37 yrs. SDC was defined as the product of richness (the number of different display movements) and versatility (the number of transitions between movements) within a 5 min behavioral sequence. In both sexes, date in the pairing season had a linear and positive effect on SDC, whereas age had a quadratic effect, with SDC increasing until about age 20yrs, and declining afterwards. SDC better explained pairing patterns than age, and positively influenced the probability of becoming a breeder. Our results thus support the idea that SDC is an honest signal of individual quality and further suggest that senescence in display could be an overlooked aspect of reproductive decline in species with no or weak pair bonding.
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