Age-dependent mating tactics in male bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus)

Behaviour

Volumn 144, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 585-610

  Apio, Ann ^a,b   Plath, Martin ^b,c   Tiedemann, Ralph ^b   Wronski, Torsten ^d  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Alternative tactics; Antelopes; Mating tactics; Sneaky copulations; Territoriality

Indexed keywords

TRAGELAPHUS SCRIPTUS;

EID: 34249995672     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853907780713073     Document Type: Article

References (84)

1. Allsopp, R. (1978). Social biology of bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus Pallas 1776) in the Nairobi National Park, Kenya. - E. Afr. Wildl. J. 16: 153-165.
2. Balmford, A.P. (1990). Lekking in Uganda kob. - Ph.D. Thesis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge.
3. Brockmann, H.J. (2001). The evolution of alternative strategies and tactics. - Adv. Stud. Behav. 30: 1-51.
4. Bro-Jørgensen, J. (2002). Overt female mate competition and preference for central males in alekking Antelope. - Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 99(14): 9290-9293.
5. Bro-Jørgensen, J. (2003). No peace for estrous topi cows on leks. - Behav. Ecol. 14(4): 521-525.
6. Bro-Jørgensen, J. & Durant, S.M. (2003). Mating strategies of topi bulls: getting in the centre of attention. - Anim. Behav. 65: 585-594.
7. Byers, J.A. (1998). American Pronghorn: social adaptations and the ghosts of predators past. - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, p. 318.
8. Cade, W. (1980). Alternative male reproductive strategies. - Florida Entomol. 63: 30-45.
9. Clutton-Brock, T.H., Guinness, F.E. & Albon, S.D. (1982). Red deer: behavior and ecology of two sexes. - Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, p. 378.
10. Clutton-Brock, T.H. (1989). Mammalian mating systems. - Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 236: 339-372.
11. Clutton-Brock, T.H., Hiraiwa-Hasegawa, M. & Robertson, A. (1989). Mate choice on fallow deer leks. - Nature 340: 463-465.
12. Cole, L.C. (1949). The measurement of interspecific association. - Ecology 30(4): 411-424.
13. Coltman, D.W., Festa-Bianchet, M., Jorgenson, J.T. & Strobeck, C. (2002). Age-dependent sexual selection in bighorn rams. - Proc. R. Soc. Lond. B 269: 165-172.
14. Dawkins, R. (1980). Good strategy or evolutionary stable strategy? - In: Sociobiology: Beyond Nature/Nature (Barlow, G.W. & Silverberg, J., eds). Westview Press, Boulder, CO, p. 331-367.
15. de Vries, H. (1993). The rowwise correlation between two proximity matrices and the partial rowwise correlation. - Psychometrika 58: 53-69.
16. de Waal, F.B.M. (1991). Rank distance as a central feature of rhesus monkey social organization: a sociometric analysis. - Anim. Behav. 41: 383-396.
17. deYoung, R.W., Demarais, S., Honeycutt, R.L., Gee, K.L. & Gonzales, R.A. (2006). Social dominance and male breeding success in captive white - tailed deer. -Wildl. Soc. Bull. 34: 131-136.
18. Dominey, W.J. (1984). Alternative mating tactics and evolutionarily stable strategies. - Am. Zool. 29: 385-396.
19. Dubost, G. (1980). L'ecologie et la vie sociale du céphalophe bleu (Cephalophus monticola Thunberg), petit ruminant forestier africain. - Z. Tierpsychol. 54: 205-266.
20. Dunbar, R.I.M. (1982). Intraspecific variations in mating strategy. - In: Perspectives in Ethology (Bateson, P.P.G. & Klopfer, P.H., eds). Plenum Press, New York, NY, p. 385-431.
21. Estes, R.D. (1991). The behavior guide to African mammals. - University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, p. 611.
22. Forsyth, D.M., Duncan, R.P., Tustin, K.G. & Gaillard, J.M. (2005). A substantial energetic cost to male reproduction in a sexually dimorphic ungulate. - Ecology 86: 2154-2163.
23. Gadgil, M. (1972). Male dimorphism as a consequence of sexual selection. - Am. Nat. 106: 574-580.
24. Gross, M.R. (1996). Alternative reproductive strategies and tactics: diversity within sexes. - Trends Ecol. Evol. 11: 92-98.
25. Haltehenorth, T. & Diller, H. (1977). Säugetiere Afrikas und Madagaskars. - BLV, München, Berlin.
26. Hemelrijk, C.K. (1990). A matrix partial correlation test used in investigations of reciprocity and other social interaction patterns at group level. - J. Theor. Biol. 143: 405-420.
27. Hemelrijk, C.K. & Ek, A. (1991). Reciprocity and interchange of grooming and "support" in captive chimpanzees. - Anim. Behav. 41: 923-935.
28. Hillmann, J.C. (1987). Group size and association patterns of the common eland Tragelaphus oryx. - J. Zool. (Lond.) 213: 641-664.
29. Hogg, J.T. (1984). Mating in bighorn sheep: multiple creative male strategies. - Science 225: 526-529.
30. Hooge, P.N. (1998). Animal movement analysis Arc View extensions. - USGS-BRD, Alaska Biological Science Centre, Glacier Bay Field Station, AK.
31. Horner, M.A. & Powell, R.A. (1990). Internal structure of home ranges of black bears and analysis of home range overlap. - J. Mammal. 71: 402-410.
32. Isvaran, K. & St. Mary, C.M. (2003). When should males lek? Insights from a dynamic state variable model. - Behav. Ecol. 14(6): 876-886.
33. Isvaran, K. (2005a). Variation in male mating behaviour within ungulate populations: patterns and processes. - Curr. Sci. 89: 1192-1199.
34. Isvaran, K. (2005b). Female grouping best predicts lekking in blackbuck (Antilope cervi-capra). - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 57: 283-294.
35. Jacobsen, N.H.G. (1974). Distribution, home range and behaviour patterns of bushbuck in the Lutope and Sengwa Valleys, Rhodesia. - J. S. Afr. Wildl. Ass. 4: 75-93.
36. Jarman, P. (1983). Mating system and sexual dimorphism in large, terrestrial, mammalian herbivores. - Biol. Rev. 58: 485-520.
37. Kenward, R. (1987). Wildlife radio tagging, equipment, field techniques and data analysis. - Academic Press, London.
38. Kingdon, J. (1982). East African mammals. Volume 3C, Bovids. - The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, p. 393.
39. Komers, P.E. (1996a). Obligate monogamy without paternal care in Kirk's dikdik. - Anim. Behav. 51: 131-140.
40. Komers, P.E. (1996b). Conflicting territory use in males and females of a monogamous ungulate, the Kirk's dikdik. - Ethology 102: 568-579.
41. Lock, J.M. (1977). The vegetation of the Rwenzori National Park, Uganda. - Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 98: 372-148.
42. MacLeod, S.B., Kerley, G.I.H. & Gayland, A. (1996). Habitat and diet of bushbuck Tragela-phus scriptus in the woody Cape Nature Reserve: observations from faecal analysis. - S. Afr. J. Wildl. Res. 26: 19-25.
43. Magliocca, F., Querouil, S. & Gautier-Hion, A. (2002). Grouping patterns, reproduction, and dispersal in a population of sitatungas (Tragelaphus spekei gratus). - Can. J. Zool. 80(2): 245-250.
44. Maynard Smith, J. (1978). Evolution and the theory of games. - In: Readings in Sociobiology (Clutton-Brock, T.H. & Harvey, P.H., eds). Freeman, San Francisco, CA, p. 258-270.
45. Nefdt, R.J.C. & Thirgood, S.J. (1997). Lekking, resource defense, and harassment in two subspecies of lechwe antelope. - Behav. Ecol. 8: 1-9.
46. Owen-Smith, R.N. (1975). The social ethology of the white rhinoceros, Cerathotherium simum (Burchell, 1812). - Z. Tierpsychol. 38: 337-384.
47. Owen-Smith, R.N. (1976). The problem of terrtoriality, with reference to the tragelaphine antelopes. - Publ. Univ. Pretoria 97: 80-83.
48. Parker, G.A. (1982). Phenotype-limited evolutionary strategies. - In: Current Problems in Sociobiology (King's College Sociobiology Group, eds). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 173-201.
49. Pelletier, F. & Festa-Bianchet, M. (2006). Sexual selection and social rank in bighorn rams. - Anim. Behav. 71: 649-655.
50. Pelletier, F., Hogg, J.T. & Festa-Bianchet, M. (2006). Male mating effort in a polygynous ungulate. - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 60: 645-654.
51. Plaistow, S.J., Johnstone, R.A., Colegrave, N. & Spencer, M. (2004). Evolution of alternative mating tactics: conditional versus mixed strategies. - Behav. Ecol. 15: 534-542.
52. Ralls, K. (1977). Sexual dimorphism in mammals: avian models and unanswered question. - Am. Nat. 111:917-938.
53. Rubenstein, D.I. (1980). On the evolution of alternative mating strategies. -In: Limits on Action: the allocation of individual behavior (Stadden, J.E.R., ed.). Academic Press, New York, NY, p. 65-100.
54. Rubenstein, D.I. (1986). Ecology and sociality in horses and zebras. -In: Ecological aspects of social evolution (Rubenstein, D.I. & Wrangham, R.W., eds). Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, p. 429-451.
55. Saunders, F.C., McElligott, A.C., Safi, K. & Hayden, T. J. (2005). Mating tactics of male feral goats (Capra hircus): risks and benefits. - Acta Ethol. 8: 103-110.
56. Seaman, D.E. & Powell, R.A. (1996). Accuracy of kernel estimators for animal home range analysis. -Ecology 77: 2075-2085.
57. Shuster, S.M. & Wade, M.J. (2003). Mating Systems and Strategies. - Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, p. 520.
58. Silverman, B.W. (1986). Density estimation for statistics and data analysis. - Chapman and Hall, London, p. 176.
59. Simpson, C.D. (1972). Some characteristics of tragelaphine horn growth and their relationship to age in greater kudu and bushbuck. - J. S. Afr. Wildl. Managem. Ass. 2(2): 1-8.
60. Simpson, C.D. (1973). Tooth replacement, growth and ageing criteria for the Zambezi bushbuck -Tragelaphus scriptus ornatus Pocock. - Arnoldia 6(6): 1-25.
61. Simpson, C.D. (1974). Habitat preference and seasonal movement in the Chobe bushbuck, Tragelaphus scriptus ornatus Pocock, 1900. - Arnoldia 31(6): 1-7.
62. Smiths, C.M.M. (1986). Diet composition and habitat use of the West African bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus scriptus (Pallas, 1776) during the first half of the dry season. - S. Afr. J. Zool. 21: 89-94.
63. Spencer, S.R., Caneron, G.N. & Swihart, R.K. (1990). Operationally defining home range: Temporal dependence exhibited by Hispid Cotton Rats. - Ecology 71: 1817-1822.
64. Taborsky, M. (1994). Sneakers, satellites, and helpers: parasitic and cooperative behavior in fish reproduction. - Adv. Stud. Behav. 23: 1-100.
65. Travis, J. (1994). Size-dependent behavioural variation and genetic control within and among populations. -In: Quantitative genetic approaches to animal behavior (Boake, C.R.B., ed.). University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, p. 165-187.
66. Underwood, R. (1975). Social behavior of eland. - M.Sc. Thesis, University of Pretoria.
67. Thirgood, S., Langbein, J. & Putman, R.J. (1999). Intraspecific variation in ungulate mating strategies. -The case of the flexible fallow deer. - Adv. Stud. Behav. 28: 333-361.
68. Utami, S.S., Goossens, B., Bruford, M.W., de Ruiter, J.R. & van Hooff, J.A.R.A.M. (2002). Male bimaturatism and reproductive success in Sumatran orang-utans. - Behav. Ecol. 13: 643-652.
69. Verheyen, R. (1955). Contribution a l' étude éthologique du waterbuck (Kobus defassa ugandae) et de l' antilope harnachée (Tragelaphus scriptus). - Mammalia 19: 309-319.
70. Wacher, T.J. (1988). Social organisation in the Hippotraginae. - In: Conservation and Biology of Desert antelopes (Dixon, A. & Jones, D., eds). Christopher Helm, London, p. 102-113.
71. Waser, P.M. (1975). Spatial association and social interactions in a "solitary ungulate": the bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus (Pallas). - Z. Tierpsychol. 37: 24-36.
72. Wilson, V.J. (2001). Duikers of Africa. Masters of the African forest floor. - Chipangali Wildlife Trust, Bulawayo.
73. Wirtz, P. (1981). Territorial defence and territory take-over by satellite males in the waterbuck Kobus ellipsiprymnus (Bovidae). - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 8: 161-162.
74. Wirtz, P. (1982). Territory holders, satellite males and bachelor males in a high density population of waterbuck (Kobus ellipsiprymnus) and their association with conspecifics. - Z. Tierpsychol. 58: 277-300.
75. Worton, B.J. (1989). Kernel methods for estimating the utilization distribution in home range studies. -Ecology 70: 64-168.
76. Wronski, T. (2004). The social and spatial organisation of bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus Pallas, 1766) in Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda. - Ph.D. Thesis, University of Hamburg.
77. Wronski, T. (2005). Home range overlap and spatial organisation as indicators for territoriality among male bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus). - J. Zool. (Lond.) 266: 1-9.
78. Wronski, T. & Apio, A. (2006). Home range overlap, social vicinity and agonistic interactions denoting matrilineal organisation in bushbuck, Tragelaphus scriptus. - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 59: 810-828.
79. Wronski, T. & Plath, M. (2006). Mate availability and intruder pressure as determinants of territory size in male bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus). - Acta Ethol. 9: 37-42.
80. Wronski, T., Apio, A., Wanker, R. & Plath, M. (2006a). Behavioural repertoire of the bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus): agonistic interactions, mating behaviour and parent-offspring relations. - J. Ethol. 24: 247-260.
81. Wronski, T., Apio, A., Baranga, J. & Plath, M. (2006b). Scent marking, agonistic interactions and territorial defence in male bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus). - J. Zool. (Lond.) 270: 49-57.
82. Wronski, T., Tiedeman, R., Apio, A. & Plath, M. (2006c). Cover, food, competitors and individual densities within bushbuck Tragelaphus scriptus female clan home ranges. - Acta Theriol. 51:319-326.
83. Wronski, T., Apio, A. & Plath, M. (2006d). Activity patterns of bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus) in Queen Elizabeth National Park. - Behav. Proc. 73: 333-341.
84. Wronski, T., Apio, A. & Plath, M. (2006e). The communicatory significance of localised defecation sites in bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus). - Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 60: 368-378.