I intend to explore the mating benefit of the male tail, particularly with help from the works by Propper, Halliday, and Janzen (referenced below). These explore the behaviors before, during, and after mating while will hopefully allow me to compare the sexes’ actions and see how a tail may benefit a male. The works of Grayson, Dodd, and Pimentel describe more about the actions of males and females outside of mating, and perhaps how a flatter tail could help the male on land or in the water. Janzen, Brossman, Arntzen, and Gvodik all either discuss the tails themselves or experiment with the tails of newts and their significances. Halliday’s work also goes into depth of another Genus of newt that has very different mating rituals than Taricha, and I am hoping to get another perspective of how a tail could benefit one newt over
I intend to explore the mating benefit of the male tail, particularly with help from the works by Propper, Halliday, and Janzen (referenced below). These explore the behaviors before, during, and after mating while will hopefully allow me to compare the sexes’ actions and see how a tail may benefit a male. The works of Grayson, Dodd, and Pimentel describe more about the actions of males and females outside of mating, and perhaps how a flatter tail could help the male on land or in the water. Janzen, Brossman, Arntzen, and Gvodik all either discuss the tails themselves or experiment with the tails of newts and their significances. Halliday’s work also goes into depth of another Genus of newt that has very different mating rituals than Taricha, and I am hoping to get another perspective of how a tail could benefit one newt over