Darwin’s “tug-of-war” vs. starlings’ “horse-racing”: how adaptations for sequential encounters drive simultaneous choice

By Alex Kacelnik, Marco Vasconcelos, Tiago Monteiro, J. Aw. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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• The effect of experimental design on the measurement of mate choice: a meta-analysis (2015, background): “Indeed it may be that in some species mates are assessed sequentially, perhaps using threshold-based decision rules, even when simultaneous comparisons are available (Gibson 1996; Kacelnik et al. 2011).”