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- verb Present participle of
countermark .
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Examples
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One of the main ways they can achieve this is by assessing the competitive ability of males through their success in maintaining fresh urine marks over their territory and countermarking the marks of intruders.
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Male countermarking behaviour on a female scent deposition (video by Daniela Antonacci via Canon DM MV 600-18× optical zoom / 2. 8-50 mm equivalent / Canon Video Lens).
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Male mating priority rank correlated with the frequency of male countermarking over female scents but not with the proportion of fights won by males over females.
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Lemur catta: balance among sending, receiving and countermarking scent signals.
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The copulation frequency correlated neither with the proportion of fights won by males nor with the frequency of male countermarking on female scents.
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Kr = 0.284, P = 0.057, α = 0.0125 adjusted via Bonferroni) nor with the frequency of male countermarking on female depositions (Kr = 16, τ
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We used the Rowise Matrix Correlation test using rectangular matrices (MatrixTester 2. 2.2b by Hemelrijk 2001) to verify the relationship between mating frequency and a) the proportion of fights won by males in presence of females, b) male countermarking on female depositions c) male-to-female and female-to-male grooming.
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Sifaka males competed for females by countermarking female odour depositions: in the end, the most active males gained breeding priority (
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Male priority rank correlated with the frequency of male countermarking (Exact Spearman r
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