Crickets with extravagant mating songs compensate for predation risk with extra caution

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 267, Issue 1444, 2000, Pages 671-675

  Hedrick, Ann V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Calling songs; Mating displays; Predation risk; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

CRICKET; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK; SONG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; INSECT; MALE; MATING; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALIA; GRYLLIDAE; GRYLLINAE; GRYLLUS INTEGER; INSECTA;

EID: 0034616324     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2000.1054     Document Type: Article

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