| | |
Summary: Sex-specific timing of mate searching and
territory prospecting in the nightingale:
nocturnal life of females
Tobias Roth1,2,*, Philipp Sprau3,4
, Rouven Schmidt4,5
, Marc Naguib3,4
and Valentin Amrhein1,2
1
Research Station Petite Camargue Alsacienne, Rue de la Pisciculture, 68300 Saint-Louis, France
2
University of Basel, Zoological Institute, Vesalgasse 1, 4051 Basel, Switzerland
3
Department of Animal Population Biology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW ),
PO Box 40, 6666 ZG Heteren, The Netherlands
4
Department of Animal Behaviour, University Bielefeld, PO Box 100131, 33501 Bielefeld, Germany
5
Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, Eberhard-Gwinner-Strasse, 82319 Seewiesen, Germany
Formal models have shown that diel variation in female mate searching is likely to have profound influence
on daily signalling routines of males. In studies on acoustic communication, the temporal patterns of the
|
