“Casanovas are Liars” and the launch of a new open-access science journal › Endless Forms

" ... Anyone who ever had to endure high school knows that humans are tricky and manipulative, but would a non-human animal be capable of pulling off such a deception? A new study by a team of researchers from the University of Frankfurt and the University of Oklahoma suggests that fish may indeed display this strategy of “deceptive mate choice” in order to decrease male-male competition for mates. Their results have been published in a brand new open-access science journal, F1000 Research (Bierbach et al. 2013) ..."