Male dance moves that catch a woman's eye

Biology Letters

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 221-224

  Neave, Nick ^a   McCarty, Kristofor ^a   Freynik, Jeanette ^b   Caplan, Nicholas ^a   Hönekopp, Johannes ^a   Fink, Bernhard ^b  

^a NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Courtship signal; Dance quality; Motion capture; Movement

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; COURTSHIP; FEMALE; HONEST SIGNALING; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; MALE; MOVEMENT; PERCEPTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VIGOR;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 79954565230     PISSN: 17449561     EISSN: 1744957X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0619     Document Type: Article

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