Nature Communications (Oct 2022)

Ornaments are equally informative in male and female birds

  • Sergio Nolazco,
  • Kaspar Delhey,
  • Shinichi Nakagawa,
  • Anne Peters

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33548-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Ornaments are often less elaborate in females than males. Regardless of such sex differences, this meta-analysis across mutually-ornamented birds supports that ornamental traits could equally act as adaptive signals in males and females.