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"},"content":{"rendered":"Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences<\/em><\/a> Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Published\u00a0September 19, 2018\u00a0(Brief from the Royal Society) When researchers monitored physical models of female dance flies adorned with the species\u2019 exclusively female sexual ornaments \u2014 swollen bodies and hairy legs \u2014 they found male flies like both large bodies and hairy legs, but prefer large bodies. Inflatable […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1327,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-scientifique","category-paper-of-interest"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-1DI","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6307,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6306\/revisions\/6307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPublished\u00a0September 19, 2018<\/strong>\u00a0(Brief<\/a> from the Royal Society)
\nWhen researchers monitored physical models of female dance flies adorned with the species\u2019 exclusively female sexual ornaments \u2014 swollen bodies and hairy legs \u2014 they found male flies like both large bodies and hairy legs, but prefer large bodies. Inflatable sacs might be a newer evolutionary innovation, and males may be more attracted to the trait\u2019s novelty.
\nLead author: <\/strong>Rosalind Murray, University of Toronto –\u00a0rosalind.murray@utoronto.ca<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"