The male tail

Jeff Harvey

Nature, 1999, vol. 402, issue 6763, 736-736

Abstract: In many snakes, males have longer tails than females, a characteristic that seems to have arisen early in evolution. From studies of mating red-sided gartersnakes in Manitoba, Canada, it seems that male tail length correlates with copulation success, but the selective force for longer tails remains a matter of surmise.

Date: 1999
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