The Mandrill: A Case of Extreme Sexual Selection by Alan F. Dixson

By Alan F. Dixson

residing within the distant forests of western principal Africa, the mandrill (Mandrillus sphinx) is notoriously elusive and has kept away from clinical scrutiny for many years. but, it's the greatest and so much sexually dimorphic of all of the previous international monkeys, and maybe the main vibrant of the entire mammals. Synthesising the result of greater than twenty-five years of study, this can be the 1st broad remedy of the mandrill's reproductive and behavioural biology. Dixson explores intimately the position that sexual choice has performed in shaping the mandrill's evolution, protecting mechanisms of mate selection, intra-sexual festival, sperm festival and cryptic girl selection. Bringing to lifestyles, via precise descriptions and wealthy illustrations, the mandrill's communicatory biology and the capabilities of its brightly colored adornments, this ebook sheds new gentle at the evolutionary biology of this interesting primate.

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