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- Title
Mate choice copying and mate quality bias: are they different processes?
- Authors
Witte, Klaudia; Godin, Jean-Guy J.
- Abstract
The article comments on a report which introduced the term "mate quality bias," which refers to a process involving the assessment of the quality of a prospective male mate by an observer female based on the number of females he had attracted instead of on the number of females he had previously attracted. The authors of the article assert that the term does notoffer a new understanding of the mechanisms of nonindependent mate choice in females in general. They add that research has shown that mate choice copying best corresponds to an associative learning mechanism in the observer female.
- Subjects
ANIMAL courtship; PAIRED associate learning; ANIMAL sexual behavior; ANIMAL behavior; ASSOCIATION of ideas; NONVERBAL learning
- Publication
Behavioral Ecology, 2010, Vol 21, Issue 1, p193
- ISSN
1045-2249
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/beheco/arp154