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Table 5.

The dependence of mating success on absolute male traits values, and difference between males in trait values, for a randomly selected competing male, n = 80.

(Backward stepwise logistic regression was used for analyses.)

	absolute male traits		relative male traits
Wald	p	Wald	p
body length	0.01	0.955	0.05	0.820
body weight	16.34^a	<0.001^a	8.91^a	0.003^a
pala size	0.02	0.884	0.16	0.693
family	0.373^a	0.542^a	0.55^a	0.458^a
	χ² = 34.90, d.f. = 2, p <0.001		χ² = 11.39, d.f. = 2, p = 0.003

^a Terms that were maintained in the final model.