Female cooing promotes ovarian development in ring doves.
In female ring doves (Streptopelia risoria), hearing their own coos promoted greater follicular growth than hearing males coo, as demonstrated by the playback of various coos to experimentally muted females, under normal conditions. This difference in follicular growth suggests that the females' own cooing, not the males' cooing, stimulates the ovarian response.
D000818:Animals; D001307:Auditory Perception; D010856:Columbidae; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D006080:Ovarian Follicle / Q000502:physiology*; D010060:Ovulation; D012931:Social Environment; D014828:Vocalization, Animal / Q000502:physiology*