Research Article
Mates of Competitive Females: The Relationships between Female Aggression, Mate Quality, and Parental Care
Table 1
Descriptive statistics for female behaviors and male quality measure (morphology and behavior).
| | Class of trait | Behavior | Mean | ±SE | Range | Sample size |
| | Female aggression | Time within 1/4 m (sec) | 137 | 17.9 |
0–579s | 69 | | Hits | 6.6 | 1.5 | 0–55 | 69 | | Dives | 0.91 | 0.3 | 0–15 | 69 |
| | Female parental care | Average brood bout (min) | 13.0 | 7.3 | 4.1–33.8 | 28 | | Provisioning rate (feeds/nestling/hour) | 0.96 | 0.07 | 0.26–1.7 | 28 |
| | Male quality measures | Wing (mm) | 82.7 | 0.2 | 79.8–88 | 62 | | Tail (mm) | 71.2 | 0.3 | 67.4–77 | 62 | | Tarsus (mm) | 21.8 | 0.07 | 20.4–22.8 | 62 | | Tail-white score | 2.30 | 0.05 | 1.5–3.15 | 61 | | Age (years) | 2.74 | 0.3 | 1–6 | 62 |
| | Male parental care | Provisioning rate (feeds/nestling/hour) | 0.92 | 0.08 | 0–1.625 | 28 |
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