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Female initiated divorce in a monogamous songbird: abandoning mates for males of higher quality

1996; Royal Society; Volume: 263; Issue: 1368 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.1996.0054

1471-2954

Ken A. Otter, Laurene M. Ratcliffe,

Plant and animal studies

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B.263351–355http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1996.0054SectionRestricted accessArticleFemale initiated divorce in a monogamous songbird: abandoning mates for males of higher quality Ken Otter Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Laurene Ratcliffe Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author Ken Otter Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and Laurene Ratcliffe Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:22 March 1996https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1996.0054AbstractDivorcing a current partner to re-pair with a mate of higher quality may be a strategy to increase reproductive success used by socially monogamous birds. By increasing the availability of males through selective mate removal during the nest building period, we found that female black-capped chickadees, Parus atricapillus, will desert their mates to pair with males of higher social rank, a trait closely associated with resource holding potential in this species. Females from neighbouring territories were more likely to desert their mates for high ranked rather than the low ranked widower males; six of seven high ranking and one of six low ranking males were chosen by the divorcing females. Six of the seven widower males chosen by divorcing females were dominant to the males that the females deserted. Once released, the originally removed females were able to re-establish pairbonds with their mates. Higher social ranks of removed females may have enabled them to exclude lower ranked replacement females, and may reflect a natural constraint on female choice.FootnotesThis text was harvested from a scanned image of the original document using optical character recognition (OCR) software. As such, it may contain errors. Please contact the Royal Society if you find an error you would like to see corrected. Mathematical notations produced through Infty OCR. Previous ArticleNext Article VIEW FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD PDF FiguresRelatedReferencesDetailsCited by Grant P and Grant B (2019) Adult sex ratio influences mate choice in Darwin's finches, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.1903838116, 116:25, (12373-12382), Online publication date: 18-Jun-2019. 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