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A young researcher was preparing a report on the con-jectured premating nocturnal habits of the monsters.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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A young researcher was preparing a report on the conÂjectured premating nocturnal habits of the monsters.
Nor Crystal Tears Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1982
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These results indicate that grooming was traded for itself in the premating period (interchange) and for mating opportunities in the mating period (exchange).
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We found that in the premating period grooming performed by males to females positively correlated with grooming performed by females to males (grooming reciprocity).
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In short, the biological market underwent seasonal fluctuations, since males bargained grooming for sex in the mating days and grooming for itself in the premating period.
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Variation in the levels of grooming directed from males to females and from females to males in the two periods (premating and mating). doi: 10.1371 / journal. pone.0004679.g002
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Moreover, during the premating period Lemur catta males compete for female access via ritualized "stink fights" and females increase their tolerance towards males based on the outcome of such fights In the sifaka, the higher mating priority gained by males via scent marking activity did not match with a higher number of copulations.
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With the same method we also tested the correlation between female-to-male and male-to-female grooming during the mating and premating days.
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The premating period was defined as the month prior to the mating days.
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Catalan J, Ganem G (2004) Strong premating divergence in a unimodal hybrid zone between two subspecies of the house mouse.
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