Sentence examples for breeding tactic from inspiring English sources

Change in frequency was determined by the frequency of the certain breeding tactic (survived mothers and their offspring) at the end of breeding season minus the initial frequency of the breeding tactic in the enclosure.

Interestingly, the reproductive costs of a mother can be affected by other mothers as well as their breeding tactic in the populations.

This work in conjunction with our own data suggests a strong positive, but unquantified, relationship between testosterone levels, territorial breeding tactic, size and reproductive success in our study males, thus the largest males, occupied the territorial positions, showed the highest levels of testosterone and were observed in more mating bouts.

This great variation in breeding tactics makes this a fascinating species for the study of how variations in environmental conditions alter the expression and evolution of behavioral and physiological traits.

Negative frequency-dependent selection evidently shows competition between tactics [28]; here it is intraspecific competition between the breeding tactics.

Our results indicate clear negative frequency-dependent and density-dependent selection on different breeding tactics in bank voles.

This idea predicts that the frequencies of opposite breeding tactics change according to the seasonal or multi-annual density variations in vole populations.

The behavioural plasticity shown by winged Cardiocondyla males allows context-dependent choices that resemble the often complex decision-making about staying or leaving in foraging animals [16] and the opportunistic breeding tactics known from vertebrate species [1], [3].

In southwestern Puerto Rico (Post 1981), breeding season foraging tactics, in order of frequency (648 observations) were: probing, 45%; gleaning, 39%; flycatching and hovering, 8%; pecking, 5%; and chasing, 2%.

Differences in diet, social systems, activity patterns, locomotion, communication, predator avoidance tactics, breeding systems, and intelligence levels help define lemur taxa and set individual species apart from the rest.

Zink, A. G. & Lyon, B. E. Evolution of conspecific brood parasitism versus cooperative breeding as alternative reproductive tactics.