Complex relationship between multiple measures of cognitive ability and male mating success in satin bowerbirds, Ptilonorhynchus violaceus

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1063-1070

  Keagy, Jason ^a   Savard, Jean François ^b   Borgia, Gerald ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognition; Cognitive evolution; General cognitive ability; Mating success; Ptilonorhynchus violaceus; Satin bowerbird; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MATING SUCCESS; PASSERINE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEXUAL SELECTION; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA; PTILONORHYNCHUS VIOLACEUS;

EID: 79953329954     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.02.018     Document Type: Article

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