Table 1.

Mean (±s.e.m.) proportion of time spent by test females in courtship display behaviour in front of males from experiment 1 (copying of preference for an individual male) and experiment 2 (copying of preference for generalized male traits).

	mixed-sex	same-sex
experiment 1 (preference for individual males)	0.654 (±0.055)	0.346 (±0.055)
experiment 2 (preference for leg band colours)	0.633 (±0.056)	0.367 (±0.056)

In experiment 1, females chose between males from the mixed-sex and same-sex observation cages, following two weeks of social observation. In experiment 2, females chose between males wearing leg band colours associated with mixed-sex and same-sex-stimulus males, after two weeks of observations. Refer to text for further details of each experiment.