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The role of the visual train ornament in the courtship of peafowl, Pavo cristatus
The peacock (Pavo cristatus) has long been considered the quintessential example of a sexually selected animal, and in the last two decades, peafowl have provided widely-cited evidence for female mate choice as well as the ...
Linking courtship behaviour, colour perception and mate choice decisions in peafowl
Despite a long history of study showing that male courtship signals influence female mate choice in many species, we lack a good understanding of how females choose. What are the mechanisms of mate choice, and how do these ...