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The male needs to keep his mating arm tip inside the female long enough to transfer at least one spermatophore, and preferably more.
A male will fight for the most prominent roosts from which to broadcast his mating call; females fight over desirable nests, and even invade the nests of other females to devour competitor's eggs.
To further investigate the basis of the observed patterns of mating isolation, we examined the influence of individual male phenotype on his mating success.
The resulting equation of copulation frequency (copulation frequency (y) = intercept+estimate meat sharing*x: y = 1.55+1.56*x, see Table 1) indicates that if a male shared meat with a particular female, his mating success on average was twice as large (y = 1.55+1.56*1 = 3.11) as if he did not share meat with the female (y = 1.55+1.56*0 = 1.55).
Therefore, it is reasonable to expect that a more experienced male would be better at performing some aspect of courtship to improve his mating success.
In a natural setting where many flies are competing for mates, rapid courtship initiation may give an experienced male a competitive advantage that increases his mating success.
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