Abstract:
Male reproductive success is obviously mate limited, which implies that males should rarely be choosy. One extreme case of a reproductive (or mating) cost is sexual cannibalism. Recent research has proposed that male mantids (Parastagmatoptera tessellata) are choosy and not complicit in cannibalism and that they modify behavior towards females based on the risk imposed by them. Since female cannibalism depends on females' energetic state (i.e. hunger) we investigated whether male mantids are capable of using environmental cues that provide information regarding the energetic state of females to make their mate choices. Under laboratory conditions, males were confronted individually with three options: a female eating a prey, a female without a prey, and a male eating a prey (as a control for the presence of prey). Each subject comprising a choice was harnessed and placed in the corners of a triangular experimental arena at an equidistant distance from the focal male. The prey was a middle size cricket that subjects ate in approximately twenty minutes. The behavior of focal males was recorded for six hours. Females were under the same deprivation regime and, in line with previous studies, consuming one cricket did not significantly increase females' abdomen girth. Male mantids significantly preferred females that were eating a prey. In all cases choices were made after the females consumed the whole prey. This suggests that males did not use the prey as a direct way to avoid being cannibalized by keeping the female busy. The preference for females that had recently fed may have evolved because of the potential reduction in sexual cannibalism. © 2016 Elsevier B.V..
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Título: | Males choose to keep their heads: Preference for lower risk females in a praying mantid |
Autor: | Avigliano, E.; Scardamaglia, R.C.; Gabelli, F.M.; Pompilio, L. |
Filiación: | Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución and IEGEBA-CONICET, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Instituto de Investigaciones en Producción Animal (INPA-CONICET-UBA), Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Argentina
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Palabras clave: | Mate choice; Parastagmatoptera tessellata; Praying mantid; Sexual cannibalism; Sexual conflict; behavioral ecology; cannibalism; cricket; environmental cue; female behavior; laboratory method; mate choice; reproductive success; research work; sexual conflict; abdomen; cannibalism; controlled study; eating; female; head; human; human experiment; hunger; male; Mantodea; mate choice; animal; decision making; Mantodea; physiology; sexual behavior; Mantidae; Mantodea; Animals; Cannibalism; Choice Behavior; Female; Male; Mantodea; Sexual Behavior, Animal |
Año: | 2016
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Volumen: | 129
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Página de inicio: | 80
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Página de fin: | 85
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.06.005 |
Título revista: | Behavioural Processes
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Título revista abreviado: | Behav. Processes
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ISSN: | 03766357
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CODEN: | BPROD
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Registro: | https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_03766357_v129_n_p80_Avigliano |
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Avigliano, E., Scardamaglia, R.C., Gabelli, F.M. & Pompilio, L.
(2016)
. Males choose to keep their heads: Preference for lower risk females in a praying mantid. Behavioural Processes, 129, 80-85.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.06.005---------- CHICAGO ----------
Avigliano, E., Scardamaglia, R.C., Gabelli, F.M., Pompilio, L.
"Males choose to keep their heads: Preference for lower risk females in a praying mantid"
. Behavioural Processes 129
(2016) : 80-85.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.06.005---------- MLA ----------
Avigliano, E., Scardamaglia, R.C., Gabelli, F.M., Pompilio, L.
"Males choose to keep their heads: Preference for lower risk females in a praying mantid"
. Behavioural Processes, vol. 129, 2016, pp. 80-85.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.06.005---------- VANCOUVER ----------
Avigliano, E., Scardamaglia, R.C., Gabelli, F.M., Pompilio, L. Males choose to keep their heads: Preference for lower risk females in a praying mantid. Behav. Processes. 2016;129:80-85.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.beproc.2016.06.005