Habituation and development of response specificity to a sign stimulus: male preference for female courtship posture in stickleback
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A new study investigates habituation behaviour occurring when a reproductive, male three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus, responds to female courtship posture.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2000
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Behind closed doors: Use of visual cover by courting male three-spined stickleback, Gasterosteus aculeatus
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A study is conducted to investigate whether males would court inconspicuously by housing them in individual tanks with visual access to a neighboring male. A dummy of a gravid female three-spined stickleback is presented to a male in the front quadrant of the tank while screens concealed either the front quarter or front half of the tank from the neighbor.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2004
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Video playback experiments on stickleback mate choice: female motivation and attentiveness to male colour cues
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Female stickleback's sexual motivation affects the techniques mediating her attraction to nuptially colored males. But highly motivated animals may typically show reduced selectivity in continuing choice situations, and they appear to be more selective in the simultaneous choice situations since they pay attention to male nuptial coloration or they become less frightened of brightly colored males. The study of sticklebacks is facilitated by video playback for examination of the role of visual cues.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 1995
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