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6.
Geoffrey Hill (1991) has shown that female house finches prefer to mate with redder males
(this colour is related to dietary intake of carotenoids). Redder males provide better parental
care (good resources). Could females also be gaining 'good genes' by preferring redder males?
What experiments would you do to test this?
7.
Same-sex sexual behaviour has been extensively documented in non-human animals. How
would you explain this? How would you test your hypotheses? (see the review by Bailey &
Zuk, 2009).
