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SUBMITTER: Henderson LJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6083223 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Henderson L J LJ Brazeal Kathleen R KR Hahn Thomas P TP
Biology letters 20180701 7
Animals use multiple signals to attract mates, including elaborate song, brightly coloured ornaments and physical displays. Female birds often prefer both elaborate male song and intense carotenoid-based plumage coloration. This could lead less visually ornamented males to increase song production to maximize their attractiveness to females. We tested this possibility in the highly social and non-territorial house finch (<i>Haemorhous mexicanus</i>), in which females discriminate among males bas ...[more]