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Twenty male white-footed mice, Peromyscus leucopus, were tested for copulatory behavior under conditions in which either a single male or two males mated with a single female. Males did not fight over females. Qualitative aspects of copulatory behavior were unaltered in the two-male condition. There was some evidence of a social facilitation of copulatory behavior as the second ejaculations of two-male tests were attained with significantly fewer mounts and shorter inter-intromission intervals than in the one-male condition.
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Supported by Grant BMS75-08658 from the National Science Foundation. I thank the Schering Corporation for providing estradiol benzoate and progesterone, and Dr. J. A. King for providing stock of Peromyscus leucopus.
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Dewsbury, D.A. Copulatory behavior of white-footed mice (Peromyscus leucopus) in a multimale situation. Bull. Psychon. Soc. 7, 340–342 (1976). https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03337209
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