Re: [SBB] Western Tanager & Spotted Sandpipers

[Joseph Morlan <[[email protected]]>]

On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 18:59:10 -0700, "Alvaro Jaramillo"
<[[email protected]]> wrote:

>Note that sex role reversed is the standard term in behavioural ecology to
>refer to situations where males are the limiting sex in calculations of
>reproductive success, a scenario that selects for inter-female competition
>and usually larger size and ornamentation. It implies that this situation is
>somehow incorrect (reversed)

The situation where females are larger than the males (owls, raptors, etc.)
is often called "reversed sexual size dimorphism" in scientific literature.
Is it really that uncommon for females to be larger than males?  Or is it
possible that scientists may be assuming inherent human prejudice by using
such terminology?  

-- 
Joseph Morlan, Pacifica, CA 94044  jmorlan (at) ccsf.org 
Birding Classes in SF start Feb.8  http://fog.ccsf.edu/~jmorlan/
California Bird Records Committee  http://www.wfo-cbrc.org/cbrc/
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