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Who cares? Experimental attention biases provide new insights into a mammalian sexual signal.
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- Linking social attention to reproductive state and future reproduction in female monkeys.Behavioral ecology and sociobiology · 2026Article
- Bornean orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) show an attentional bias toward a male secondary sexual trait.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2025Article
- Individual differences in sociocognitive traits in semi-free-ranging rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta).American journal of primatology · 2025Article
- No immediate attentional bias towards or choice bias for male secondary sexual characteristics in Bornean orang-utans (Pongo pygmaeus).Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Facial and genital color ornamentation, testosterone, and reproductive output in high-ranking male rhesus macaques.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Variation and heritability of retinal cone ratios in a free-ranging population of rhesus macaques.Evolution; international journal of organic evolution · 2022Article
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- Male morphological traits are heritable but do not predict reproductive success in a sexually-dimorphic primate.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Platyrrhine color signals: New horizons to pursue.Evolutionary anthropology · 2019Article
- Experimental evidence that female rhesus macaques (Royal Society open science · 2019Article
- Affect-Driven Attention Biases as Animal Welfare Indicators: Review and Methods.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2018Review
- Do capuchin monkeys (Sapajus apella) prefer symmetrical face shapes?Journal of comparative psychology (Washington, D.C. : 1983) · 2017Article
- Testing for links between face color and age, dominance status, parity, weight, and intestinal nematode infection in a sample of female Japanese macaques.Primates; journal of primatology · 2017Article
- Female ornaments: is red skin color attractive to males and related to condition in rhesus macaques?Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
- Is male rhesus macaque facial coloration under intrasexual selection?Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral EcologyArticle
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Abstract
The effects of intrasexual and intersexual selection on male trait evolution can be difficult to disentangle, especially based on observational data. Male-male competition can limit an observer's ability to identify the effect of female mate choice independently from sexual coercion. Here, we use an experimental approach to explore whether an ornament, the red facial skin exhibited by male rhesus macaques (
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