While searching for information about chicks and testosterone for biology, I came across this wonderfully amusing article..
Careless whispers cost chicks
Females stray when mates lose song battles.
3 May 2002
JOHN WHITFIELD
Female birds that overhear their partner lose a singing contest are more likely to mate sneakily with another male, researchers have found.
Just two defeats send a female looking for alternative mates. "Females are deciding who's going to father their children on the basis of a six-minute interaction," says zoologist Tom Peake of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. "That's got to worry pretty much every male on the planet."
Careless whispers cost chicks
Females stray when mates lose song battles.
3 May 2002
JOHN WHITFIELD
Female birds that overhear their partner lose a singing contest are more likely to mate sneakily with another male, researchers have found.
Just two defeats send a female looking for alternative mates. "Females are deciding who's going to father their children on the basis of a six-minute interaction," says zoologist Tom Peake of the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. "That's got to worry pretty much every male on the planet."
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