Authors
CA Toth, AW Santure, GI Holwell, DE Pattemore, Stuart Parsons
Publication date
2018/2/1
Journal
Animal Behaviour
Volume
136
Pages
13-19
Publisher
Academic Press
Description
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- The courtship behaviour of a lekking bat is described.
- Some males sing solitarily, while others sing sequentially from shared spaces.
- Large males tended to inhabit ‘timeshares’; small males inhabited solitary roosts.
- Solitary males sang longer; timeshare roosts were occupied longer nightly.
- There appeared to be no fitness difference between males of the two groups.
Leks are aggregations of sexually displaying males visited by receptive females and characterized by intense male–male competition to attract mates. Success in lekking species is often contingent upon male display output and/or lek attendance, with energetically costly displays functioning as an honest indicator of male quality. Furthermore, display spaces are vigorously defended by territorial males, and territory characteristics are often linked to male phenotype. Here we describe the courtship and territorial behaviour of lekking lesser short …
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