Mate choice by female house wrens.

dc.contributor.author	Pribil, Stanislav.
dc.date.accessioned	2009-04-17T16:07:25Z
dc.date.available	2009-04-17T16:07:25Z
dc.date.created	1993
dc.date.issued	1993
dc.degree.level	Masters
dc.degree.name	M.Sc.
dc.description.abstract	This study examined female mate choice in the House Wren (Troglodytes aedon). The study was divided into two parts. The first part examined which territory or male traits contribute to female fitness. The second part examined whether females mate non-randomly with respect to those traits. Female fitness (nesting success, number of fledglings, nestling weight) was not related to any territory or male trait. Females mated randomly with respect to all traits except one: they preferred males who arrived early from migration to males who arrived late. However, the date of male arrival was not related to female fitness.
dc.format.extent	71 p.
dc.identifier.citation	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 45-06, page: 3043.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10393/11084
dc.identifier.uri	http://dx.doi.org/10.20381/ruor-17158
dc.publisher	University of Ottawa (Canada)
dc.subject.classification	Biology, Ecology.
dc.title	Mate choice by female house wrens.
dc.type	Thesis

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