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Tsellarius A. Y., Tsellarius E. Y., Galoyan E. A. HIGH TENSION OF TERRITORIAL RELATIONS AMONG MALES MAY NEGATIVELY INFLUENCE THEIR RELATIONS WITH FEMALES IN THE ROCK LIZARD DAREVSKIA BRAUNERI (SAURIA, LACERTIDAE). Current Studies in Herpetology, 2018, vol. 18, iss. 1, pp. 46-53. DOI: https://doi.org/10.18500/1814-6090-2018-18-1-2-46-53
HIGH TENSION OF TERRITORIAL RELATIONS AMONG MALES MAY NEGATIVELY INFLUENCE THEIR RELATIONS WITH FEMALES IN THE ROCK LIZARD DAREVSKIA BRAUNERI (SAURIA, LACERTIDAE)
In previous papers we have ascertained the existence of many-year social monogamy in Brauner's lizard (A-relations). The data presented in this communication show that the territorial male’s aggression against the female, including sexual aggression, manifests itself during, or immediately after, a territorial skirmish between the male and the intruder. During an hour after this assault, an increased frequency of rejections of social contacts with the male remained in the assaulted female. In dyads with stable long-term A-relations, a male’s aggressiveness against his female and the frequency of the female’s rejections from contacts were significantly higher in the periods with the high tension of territorial relations of the male with his neighbors. The formation of A-relations demands frequent male-female amicable contacts throughout more than a year as a rule. Thus, the high tension of territorial relations in a settlement may hamper the formation of social monogamy and the corresponding stable sexual relation.
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