Female iguanas pay high costs to choose a mate

Picking a mate isn’t easy—if you are a female iguana. In a study published in the June 27th issue of the online, open-access journal PLoS ONE, Maren Vitousek of Princeton University and colleagues found that female Galápagos marine iguanas spend a lot of energy picking a mate from a wide range of suitors – energy they could otherwise spend foraging, producing eggs, or avoiding predators.

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<p><a href="http://www.physorg.com/news102156116.html">Female iguanas pay high costs to choose a mate</a></p> <p>Picking a mate isn’t easy—if you are a female iguana. In a study published in the June 27th issue of the online, open-access journal <i>PLoS ONE</i>, Maren Vitousek of Princeton University and colleagues found that female Galápagos marine iguanas spend a lot of energy picking a mate from a wide range of suitors – energy they could otherwise spend foraging, producing eggs, or avoiding predators.</p>