My new paper in Nature Ecology and Evolution has just been published online. This is the published version of the preprint I talked about recently. The take-home message is that males display to females less when they are in poor condition, and more when they are old. Therefore, sexual display behaviour generally reflects a male's condition, and so can be seen as 'honest'. This also suggests that females could often benefit from choosing males based on their display effort.
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