Beyond the prey: male spiders highly invest in silk when producing worthless gifts

In the spider Paratrechalea ornata, males have two gift-giving mating tactics, offering either a nutritive (prey) or a worthless (prey leftovers) silk wrapped gift to females. Both gift types confer similar mating success and duration and afford males a higher success rate than when they offer no gi...

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Main Author:	Pavón, Camila (author)
Other Authors:	Franco-Trecu, Valentina (author), Pandulli, Irene (author), Jones, Therésa M. (author), Albo, María José (author)
Format:	article
Language:	English
Published:	2022
Subjects:	Deceptive tactics Gift-giving behaviour Male choice Silk wrapping investment
Online Access:	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12008/43412
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