TY - JOUR
T1 - Breeding experience modulating androgen dependent courtship behavior in male ring doves (Streptopelia risoria)
AU - Cheng, Mei Fang
AU - Klint, Thorsten
AU - Johnson, Alan L.
N1 - Funding Information:
Contribution number 428 from the Institute of Animal Behavior, Rutgers University. This work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation Grant BNS-8121495 and Research Scientist Development Award K02-MH-70897 to M.-F. Cheng, by NSH NIH Grant HD-17432 to A. L. Johnson and by the Swedish Natural Science Research Council and the Sweden-American Foundation to T. Klint.
PY - 1986
Y1 - 1986
N2 - Courtship behavior of reproductively experienced males was compared with that of age-matched inexperienced males before and after castration and during treatments with hormones (testosterone propionate and estradiol benzoate). Inexperienced males displayed significantly lower levels of nest-oriented courtship, the nest-cooing (nest-soliciting) and wingflippings; however, agonistic courtship, the bow-cooing, was not affected by breeding experience. The lower level of nest-cooing display in the inexperienced males persisted even when their circulating level of androgen as measured by RIA was no different from that of experienced males. Estrogen treatments, however, produced no group difference in levels of nest-coo display. These results were discussed in the context of hormone-behavior relationships.
AB - Courtship behavior of reproductively experienced males was compared with that of age-matched inexperienced males before and after castration and during treatments with hormones (testosterone propionate and estradiol benzoate). Inexperienced males displayed significantly lower levels of nest-oriented courtship, the nest-cooing (nest-soliciting) and wingflippings; however, agonistic courtship, the bow-cooing, was not affected by breeding experience. The lower level of nest-cooing display in the inexperienced males persisted even when their circulating level of androgen as measured by RIA was no different from that of experienced males. Estrogen treatments, however, produced no group difference in levels of nest-coo display. These results were discussed in the context of hormone-behavior relationships.
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U2 - 10.1016/0031-9384(86)90344-6
DO - 10.1016/0031-9384(86)90344-6
M3 - Article
C2 - 3714833
AN - SCOPUS:0022599387
SN - 0031-9384
VL - 36
SP - 625
EP - 630
JO - Physiology and Behavior
JF - Physiology and Behavior
IS - 4
ER -