Habitat Selection and Mating Success in a Mustelid

Table 1

Consortship duration and consortship success (number of sexual partners) for 24 radiotracked males and 25 females of European polecats Mustela putorius from Western France.

	Males	Number of sexual partners	Successful Consortship with	Number of sexual partnersfor female	Consortship duration (days)
Breeding males	M1	1	F1	1	4
	M2	1	F2	1	3
	M3	1	F3	1	4
	M4	2	F4	1	2
			F5	1	1
	M5	1	F6	1	1
	M6	2	F7	1	5
			F8	1	2
	M7	1	F9	2	1
	M8	1	F10	1	6
	M9	3	F11	2	3
			F12	2	3
			F13	1	2
	M10	2	F14	1	3
			F15	1	3
	M11	2	F16	1	4
			F17	1	3
	M12	1	F18	1	5
	M13	2	F19	1	3
			F20	1	4
	M14	2	F21	1	5
			F22	1	3
	M15	2	F23	1	3
			F24	1	3
	M16	1	F25	1	4
	M17	1	F17	1	2
	M18	1	F18	1	3
	M19	1	F20	1	2
	M20	0			0
	M21	0			0
	M22	0			0
	M23	0			0
	M24	0			0
		Mean = 1.33		Mean = 1.12	Mean = 2.33