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DuVal,
E.H.
2003
Journal
Isla Boca Brava, Chiriqui Prov., Panama
10 May 2005 p.3
female for solo display. But once at the beginning
of this field season I observed WAY
displaying solo (SF-1) for a female who
was on dance perch FBE1 while RIV
sat just a few feet from the dance perch,
watching. This is unusual because way
had previously (and did again later) play the beta
role for RIV at FBE2; Beta's do not sit so
close and observe solo dance displays - they
usually move some distance away There was
no two-? dance for this particular female.
So what's going on here? Is this a
type of concession by RIV? Are the paired
displays a sort of rent-paying by WAY?
Does RIV never dance with way on FBE1 dp
as a beta (ie RIV leaves x way stays)? Is
this a form of reciprocity? Certainly this
was RIV's territory long before WAY
joined him. Is this the only pair of
males that splits dance perches up
between them within one territory, yet
maintains a partnership? There's potential
for this situation at WELY, SBE1, & ADS-NEC.
This arrangement would make sense if
cooperative display evolved from ancestors
who only displayed cooperatively at teritory