Dyson, Miranda L.; Henzi, S. Peter; Halliday, Timothy R. and
Barrett, Louise |DOI (Digital Object Identifier)
Link:||http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1098/rspb.1998.0451| |Google
Scholar:||Look up in Google Scholar| Studies of the distribution
of mating success among males in frog choruses typically seek to
identify specific phenotypic attributes that confer a higher
mating success on certain individual males. These attributes
invariably relate to competition among males: either direct
competition in the form of aggression, or competition to attract
and be chosen by females. In this paper, we present evidence
that an additional factor may operate in frog choruses. We show
that individual males who mate on a given night enjoy a higher
probability of being successful on the next night, and we
suggest that this is because successful mating enables males to
conserve energy. |Item Type:||Journal Article| |Copyright
Holders:||1998 The Royal Society| |Keywords:||anurans; mating
success; sexual selection; energetics; lek| |A