Quotes and examples to remember
Grey sided Voles, IMS (1987): link between resources and male and female distribution and male
reproductive tactics
Amphipods, JUST (1988): Female defence polygyny carries female houses around which he sticks on
to his own!
Great Snipe HOGLUND and LUNDBERG (1987): Hotshot lekking
Seaside Sparrows, GREENLAW and POST (1985): Testing monogamy hypothesis
Large testies in primates, HARCOURT (1981): Sexual selection acting on sperm competition
Sensory Bias, FREEMAN and HERRON, NOA and FULLER (2010): water mites and blue finned killifish
Guppies with orange spots, GRETHER (2010): Female preference the result of sensory bias or
runaway Fisharian selection?
Horse shoe crabs, BROCKMANN (2000): Conditional alternative reproductive strategy
Coho Salmon; Hook noses and Jacks: True alternative strategies in evolutionary equilbrum
Vampire Bats, WILKINSON (1982): cooperative regurgitation of blood meals is not completely due to
kin selection
Pied Kingfisher, REYER (1984): cooperative breeding is the result of direct benefits of deferred
breeding success
Sticklebacks playing ’tit for tat’, MILIKSI (1987): reciprocal cooperation experiment
The Wason test, COSMIDIES and TOOBY (1992): test showing the human cooperative brain
The green beard effect, JANSEN and BAATEN (2006)
Long tailed tits, YOUNGS et al: Facultative cooperative breeders
Ecological constraints theory, EMLEN (1994): shortage of territory, high mortality and lack of
breeding success
Scrub Jays, WOOLFENDEN and FITZPATRIK (1978): example of the above theory as a result of
territory shortage
Infanticide and Social stress, CLUTTON-BROCK and YOUNGS (2006): cooperative breeders
Helper removal experiments, BROWN et al (1982): in grey crowned babblers
Banded mongoose escorts, HODGE (2005): escorts increase offspring survival
Saddle backed tamerins: male helps carry around offspring which are 20% of his own body weight
White fronted bee eaters, EMLEN and WREG (1989): clear cut example of kin selection, only indirect
benefits to helping were observed in breeding help
