ABSTRACT 1 Research on mating systems and reproductive strategies is valuable for
providing ethological knowledge, important for the management and conservation of a …

Ungulates exhibit diverse mating systems that range from monogamous pair territories to
highly polygynous leks. We review mating systems and behaviors across ungulates and …

Our goal in this essay is to review the hypothesis that females choose mates by the
evaluation of male motor performance. We define motor performance as vigour, the ability to …

Rory Putman addresses the question of how, in many temporate ecosystems, diverse and
species-rich assemblies of ungulates manage to co-exist despite often quite extensive …

La plasticité du comportement repose sur un complexe de réactions à des conditions
variables de l'environnement. Il est généralement supposé que l'éventail des réactions …

Traits that are correlated with mating success are likely to be subject to sexual selection.. In
lekking species, a male's mating success can be estimated as the number of females that he …

It is our goal in this text to use evolutionary principles as a unifying theme for exposing
students to a number of approaches to the field of animal behavior and to demonstrate that …

Using both a conventional and a phylogenetic approach, we tested whether sexual size
dimorphism, mating tactic and environmental conditions influenced the between‐sex …

The breeding and non-breeding distributions of male and female marine iguanas,
Amblyrhynchus cristatus, and their mating behaviour were analysed. The population size …

One way in which secondary sexual traits can influence differential reproductive success is
by playing a key role in the outcome of direct physical contests for mates. Here we describe …