Eco-ethology of sexual strategies in animals.
This brief review of comparative aspects of sexual strategies in animals, will focus on their behavioral flexibility rather than on fixed action patterns. Discussion will be on why sex is so common, but not universal, in animal species, and why males and females differ in their sexual strategies, and how each individual adapts its strategies according to social and ecological environment. The goal is to suggest to clinical sexologists to be careful in depicting what is pathological and what is an adaptation to a bad ecological or social environment in our species.
Camperio Ciani
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Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy. andrea.camperio@unipd.it
D000818:Animals; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003163:Competitive Behavior; D004463:Ecology / Q000379:methods; D005010:Ethology / Q000379:methods; D012726:Sexual Behavior, Animal