Animals also choose their mates, sometimes with a great deal of care. Mating systems are important ... leading to greater elaboration of behavior and structures used in attracting mates in males ...

Insights into animal behavior allowed our ancestors to outsmart ... Knowledge of animal mating systems helped human societies grow, because propagation of domesticated stocks ensured that there ...

Regulation of physiology and behavior by social experience is an important feature across animal species. Here, we found that social experience shapes the fighting strategies of male flies, in which ...

The elaborate patterns of behavior that precede mating in some species present a puzzling biological problem. Their function is sought through the classic interplay of theory and experiment ...

"Traditionally, male behaviors have been the center of the spotlight in courtship behavior research," Li ... complex dynamics ...

Is male helping behavior important for monogamous partnerships? This book provides answers concerning the biological roots of social monogamy in animal groups as diverse as ungulates ... and very ...

Decisions like these determine an individual’s survival and their probability of reproducing. Often these decisions are made in a group. At the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, we aim to ...