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| Title | Animal cognition: Mate choice for cognition- Do females fall for clever males?
Laboratory based experimental work. |
| Group | Behavioural Ecology |
| Project type | thesis |
| Credits | 12-36 |
| Supervisor(s) | Séverine Kotrschal |
| Examiner(s) | Marc Naguib |
| Contact info | severine.kotrschal@wur.nl |
| Begin date | 2020/10/12 |
| End date | 2023/04/01 |
| Description | Being intelligent has many advantages. For a female guppy this means higher chances of survival under predator pressure, better ability to adapt to a changing environment, making more correct mate choices and generally learning faster where and what to eat. Intelligence is also heritable and mating with an intelligent partner therefore should increase lifetime reproductive success. The aim of this project is to test whether female guppies preferably choose a male that they have seen to perform well in a colour discrimination test over a male that performed badly in this test. |
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