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Female zebra finches prefer males with symmetric chest plumage

1994; Royal Society; Volume: 258; Issue: 1353 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1098/rspb.1994.0172

1471-2954

John P. Swaddle, Innes C. Cuthill,

Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

Restricted accessMoreSectionsView PDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack Citations ShareShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmail Cite this article Swaddle John P. and Cuthill Innes C. 1994Female zebra finches prefer males with symmetric chest plumageProc. R. Soc. Lond. B.258267–271http://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1994.0172SectionRestricted accessArticleFemale zebra finches prefer males with symmetric chest plumage John P. Swaddle Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author and Innes C. Cuthill Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Search for more papers by this author John P. Swaddle Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed and Innes C. Cuthill Google Scholar Find this author on PubMed Published:22 December 1994https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.1994.0172AbstractThe level of fluctuating asymmetry in a secondary sexual character is believed to reveal aspects of male quality. Previous investigations have demonstrated that females may pay attention to this information when making mate choice decisions; females prefer symmetric over asymmetric males. However, these studies have involved either manipulation of functionally important flight feathers, or of artificial ornaments. Here, we manipulate an existing secondary sexual plumage trait, one that does not influence flight performance, within the boundaries of natural asymmetry. Through manipulations of chest plumage, we demonstrate that female zebra finches choose to display more and for longer in front of males with symmetric, as opposed to asymmetric, chest plumage.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. 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