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Female preferences for long tails constrained by species recognition in short-tailed red bishops
2008
Behavioral Ecology
Sexual selection and species recognition both play important roles in mate choice. Typically, females use the relative expression of male sexual traits to select high-quality or attractive mates (sexual selection) of the same species (species recognition). However, when the variation in male trait expression of both conspecifics and heterospecifics overlaps, females potentially face a conflict between sexual selection and mate recognition. Among the highly polygynous and closely related African
doi:10.1093/beheco/arn100
fatcat:q6fbm5a7urfglm72nrftj2qovm