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- Title
The High Price of Success: Costs of Mating Effort in Male Primates.
- Authors
Emery Thompson, Melissa; Georgiev, Alexander
- Abstract
While males are generally the low investing sex when it comes to offspring care, males of many species experience intense and persistent mating effort. Mating effort incurs a variety of costs which are expected to have non-negligible effects on fitness, as well as how reproductive tactics are selected and investment in mating activity is moderated over time. This special issue features contributions investigating the costs of male mating effort across primate species. Here, we place these exciting new works in context, addressing the specific types of mating effort expected for male primates and the significance of these costs for our understanding of primate life histories and socioecology.
- Subjects
COMPETITION (Biology); GLUCOCORTICOIDS; TESTOSTERONE; MAMMAL bioenergetics; PRIMATE ecology; PRIMATE reproduction; SEXUAL behavior in primates; MAMMALS
- Publication
International Journal of Primatology, 2014, Vol 35, Issue 3/4, p609
- ISSN
0164-0291
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1007/s10764-014-9790-4