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A fact from Perugia's limia appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 30 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that dominant males of Perugia's limia(species pictured) may be so preoccupied with fighting each other that the females end up mating with the subordinate males?
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... that Perugia's limia(pictured) females do not care whether males dance for them but only how big they are?
Source: "females of L. perugiae do not prefer courting versus noncourting males. They choose only with respect to body size" [1]
ALT1: ... that though it may have the gut of a herbivore, Perugia's limia(pictured) has quite a taste for bugs? Source: "species with longer guts corresponded to a more herbivorous dietary mode ... L. perugiae showed a large relative gut length combined with a high proportion of invertebrates in the diet." [2]
ALT2: ... that in Perugia's limia(pictured) the dominant males may be so preoccupied with fighting each other that all the females end up sneakily impregnated by the subordinate males instead? Source: "the dominant male must spend more time fighting and less time pursuing females. Furthermore, attacks on nonaggressive subordinates decrease as aggressive high rank males devote proportionally more time fighting each other, allowing lower rank males a greater opportunity to mate successfully." [3]
Overall: Going thru the articles and the paper, I highly recommend the ALT2 headline, I think that is an insightful, interesting mating behavior, good work! NeverBeGameOver (talk) 14:46, 13 August 2024 (UTC)Reply