Recent interest in parasites and sexual selection has focused attention on the paradox that
the sexual displays which indicate parasite resistance in male vertebrates are triggered by …

Male-female interaction is important for finding a suitable mating partner and for ensuring
reproductive success. Male sexual signals such as pheromones transmit information and …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

The voices of birds have always been a source of fascination. Nature's Music brings together
some of the world's experts on birdsong, to review the advances that have taken place in our …

Abstract The Evolution of Avian Breeding Systems deals with three of the most conspicuous
and fascinating aspects of the reproductive biology of birds: sexual selection, parental care …

Sexual selection theory predicts that signals reflecting the relative quality of individuals
should be used in mate choice. Females could base their choice of copulation partners on …

Background Models of honest advertisement predict that sexually selected calls should
signal male quality. In most vertebrates, high quality males have larger body sizes that …

Speech has long been thought of as a uniquely defining characteristic of humans. Yet song
birds, like humans, communicate using learned signals (song, speech) that are acquired …

We studied female choice and reproductive success in a marked population of sedge
warblersAcrocephalus schoenobaenus, from 1995 to 1996. Three genera of parasitic blood …

In a variety of songbirds the production of trilled song elements is constrained by a
performance tradeoff between how fast a bird can repeat trill units (trill rate) and the range of …