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Article – Sexual display complexity varies non-linearly with age and predicts breeding status in greater flamingos

This article was published in November 2016 in the Nature Scientific Reports journal.

You can access it online and in open access through the opposite link.

It deals with the results of a study led by Charlotte Perrot, a doctoral student at the Tour du Valat, about the complexity of the sexual displays performed by the Greater Flamingos in the Camargue (see the video hereunder), one of the largest colonies of this species throughout the Mediterranean basin.

Parade des flamants roses au Fangassier [1] from Tour du Valat [2] on Vimeo [1].

Photo: sexual displays by Greater Flamingos in the Camargue (© Céline Hanzen)