Territorial Polygyny in the Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus)
Talk outline:
- Introduction
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Brief history and description of the social system of the
red-winged blackbird
- Male Territoriality
- Territory defense
- Competition for territory
- Site fidelity
- Territory establishment **
- Polygyny
- Models of territorial polygyny
- Benefits and costs of polygyny for males
- Consequences of polygyny for females
- Are Females Territorial?
- Female aggressive behavior
- Female spatial distribution
- Speaker occupation experiments **
- The Evolution of Territorial Polygyny
- Territoriality led to polygyny
- Polygyny let to territoriality
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