... as a watchtower, Lyon described it as a '…Harem, of which a portion is here given with ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
Jerry F. Downhower, Kenneth B. Armitage,
... and their offspring, respectively, as functions of increasing harem size. Our data indicate that an adult female ... A second curve describing the fitness of the harem master with increasing harem size indicates that he is maximally fit when he maintains a harem of two or three females. Consideration of the ... are produced. In those years, however, the mean harem size is smaller, apparently due to increased aggression ... males and females. A general formulation of optimal harem size based on the fitness of a male ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation
1971 - University of Chicago Press | The American Naturalist
Photograph of a ruined palace or harem on the west side of the Great Tank, Sarkhej, near Ahmadabad in Gujarat, taken by Henry Cousens in the 1880s for Archaeological ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
... sont apparus. Au lieu de vivre classiquement en harems occupant des territoires se “chevauchant”, on s'est rendu compte que certains harems défendaient leur territoire et même que certains chevaux ... des assemblages provisoires ont été observés et des harems sans territoire fixe occupaient les zones semi‐ouvertes ... généralement plus grandes entre animaux vivant dans des harems territoriaux par opposition à des harems non territoriaux. Zusammenfassung Bei einer Pferdepopulation auf Shacklesford ... größere soziale Organisationsveränderungen ereignet. Anstatt in den typischen Harems in sich überschneidenden Heimatgebieten zu leben, wurde festgestellt, ...
Tópico(s): Animal Behavior and Welfare Studies
1981 - Wiley | Equine Veterinary Journal
Photograph of a ruined palace or harem on the west side of the Great Tank, Sarkhej, near Ahmadabad in Gujarat, taken by Henry Cousens in the 1880s, from the ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
Thomas Kunz, Peter V. August, Christopher D. Burnett,
... and a single adult male. This suggests a harem type of social organization. Two types of non-harem groups represented by nonreproductive females or sexually mature ... do not permit distinction between alternative explanations for harem formation, they do indicate that successful harem aquisition and maintenance is age or size related. Older and heavier males had larger harems than younger or smaller harem males. The occurrence of harem groups in tree hollows (Morrison 1979) and in caves (this study) suggests that environmental factors promoting harem social organization in A. jaamaicensis can vary between ...
Tópico(s): Species Distribution and Climate Change
1983 - Wiley | Biotropica
Wellcome Library, London. Series: Archives & Manuscripts. Photographer: Lillias Anna Hamilton.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
Abstract Male horses (Equus caballus) defend harems of females (bands) year-round and throughout their lifetimes. A male's lifetime reproductive success depends upon the number of females in his harem. Although harems have previously been reported as remaining stable over ... in an island population of feral horses changed harems during late winter. The seasonal differences in harem stability resulted from seasonal differences in the abundance ... the lower availability of suitable vegetation duirng winter. Harem stability did not depend on the age of ...
Tópico(s): Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
1990 - Brill | Behaviour
Wellcome Library, London. Series: Archives & Manuscripts. Photographer: Lillias Anna Hamilton.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
... other. Nor did females distribute themselves optimally within harems, though the distribution of egg arms within harems was significantly different from that expected from random settling. analysis of interarm distances and harem sizes in 1984 branches revealed that a minimum ... suffer considerably reduced larval survivorship due to within‐harem competition. Harem size in Ips typographus is reviewed, and data on the distribution of females within harems is presented for Norwegian populations of I. Typographus, ...
Tópico(s): Entomopathogenic Microorganisms in Pest Control
1989 - Wiley | Ecography
Wellcome Library, London. Series: Archives & Manuscripts. Photographer: Lillias Anna Hamilton.
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
Rauno V. Alatalo, Allan Carlson, Arne Lundberg,
... that male and female pheasants, Phasianus colchicus, in harems differentially adjusted their vigilance levels as harem size changed. Females became less vigilant as harems became larger, and benefited by increasing their foraging time. Conversely, males became more vigilant as harems became larger. We calculated the collective probability that a harem would detect a predator. Within natural harem sizes, a male and two females exhibited the ... with decreases as more females joined. This optimal harem size matched the average harem size observed at ...
Tópico(s): Amphibian and Reptile Biology
1988 - Elsevier BV | Animal Behaviour
Photograph from an album of 80 albumen prints taken by Eugene Clutterbuck Impey. The Agra fort was built during the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar ( ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
Stefan M. Klose, Justin A. Welbergen, Elisabeth K. V. Kalko,
... testosterone levels (T)’ were studied in relation to harem maintenance in grey-headed flying-foxes, Pteropus poliocephalus . In this species, harems provide mating opportunities and so a male's ability to maintain a harem is likely to correlate with his fitness. We ... competitors, then T should be linked to successful harem maintenance. To test this, we temporarily removed males ... and during the short mating period, recording their harem sizes both before removal and after reintroduction. Most males successfully reclaimed their territory and a harem, but during the mating period, males with higher ...
Tópico(s): Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior
2009 - Royal Society | Biology Letters
Errata: [1] p. at front Book.
1827 - Gale Group | NCCO Corvey
Tanya Latty, Michael J. L. Magrath, Matthew R. E. Symonds,
Abstract. 1. Harem polygyny can have fitness benefits and costs on females. In bark beetles of the genus Ips the latter may include within‐harem competition between larvae. However, earlier competition between females ... been relatively little investigation into the relationship between harem size and initial egg output. The present study ... the gallery with the most eggs in each harem. Mean (±SE) harem size of 242 observed harems was 3.25 ± 0.10. A curvilinear relationship was found between egg output and harem size, with females in smaller harems (one to ...
Tópico(s): Insect-Plant Interactions and Control
2009 - Wiley | Ecological Entomology
Photograph of buildings beside the tank at Sarkhej in Gujarat taken by Henry Cousens in the 1880s. This tank with a massive capacity was completed by ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
Gerald Heckel, Otto von Helversen,
... loci. Basic social units in S. bilineata are harem groups that consist of single males and up to eight females. Colonies comprise several harem groups, and the composition of colonies and harems is often stable over several reproductive seasons. The ... 17% extra-colony paternity), but social associations in harems within the colony did not represent reproductive units (70% extra-harem paternity). The latter finding was consistent over three ... parentage patterns in the colony. Even though intra-harem paternity was less frequent than expected, it contributed ...
Tópico(s): Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies
2002 - Wiley | Molecular Ecology
Photograph of the ruins at Vijayanagara from the 'Photographs to Illustrate the Ancient Architecture of Southern Indian' collection taken by Edmund David ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO Photography
Christian C. Voigt, W. Jürgen Streich,
... consist of nonterritorial males and males that defend harem territories in which females roost. The traits of nonterritorial males that define their success in harem take-overs are so far unknown. We predicted ... spent in the colony and their proximity to harems would be important factors. We temporarily removed harem holders from a colony of 60 greater sac- ... which of the nonterritorial males took over the harem. To test for consistency of results, we repeated ... second set of experiments, we removed both the harem holder and the corresponding usurper from the first ...
Tópico(s): Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
2003 - Elsevier BV | Animal Behaviour
Lott,
... Details of Her Employment as Governess to the Harem of the Viceroy of Egypt and His Failure ... Found I Could Get No Redress I Published'harem Life' Which Was the Greatest Trade Success That ...
0000 - Gale Group | NCCO British Theatre
... dialogue has not figured in the analysis of harem paintings, largely because the Western fantasy of the harem has been seen as the archetype for Western ... Mary Roberts brings to light a body of harem imagery that was created through a dynamic process ... artists and writers who were granted access to harems in the urban centers of Istanbul and Cairo. ... Turkey, Egypt, and Denmark. She rethinks the influential harem works of the realist painter John Frederick Lewis, ... Lewis, British women were able to visit Ottoman harems, and from the mid-nineteenth century on they ...
Tópico(s): Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
2008 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
OCC.,
... Papers. Frontiers Of Servia, June 1., A TURKISH HAREM.-Mr. Madden, in his Travels in Egypt, thus notices the harem of a pipe-manufacturer, who, Murder In France., ...
1829 - Gale Group | TDA
... basic social organization in Myotis boccagei is the “harem”. In each group, a single adult ♂ is invariably ... sociale de base chez M. boccagei est le “harem”. Dans chaque groupe, on trouve invariablement un unique ♂ ... été trouvés 9 fois. L‘élément stable des harems est constitué par quelques ♀♀ reproductrices. Certaines d'entre ... 3 ans. La rotation des màles “chefs de harem” est au contraire rapide: un harem eut successivement 5 ♂ ♂ différents en 3 ans, un autre 3 en 2 ans. Un troisième harem eut le même ♂ de Juin à Juillet 1974, ...
Tópico(s): Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
2010 - Wiley | Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie
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... hooligans says minister Kasparov wins it Harrods The Harem of Sutton Place Mr and Mrs World Sweet ... Birthdays Baume & Mercier C. Howard & Partners The Getty Harem Christie's Contemporary Art Legge Gatecrashers Galore No ...
1985 - Gale Group | Sunday Times HA GDA