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Article Selection
This is a list of articles that I am considering for my Wikipedia assignment:

1. Mate-choice Copying (in animals)

 * The article does not currently exist on Wikipedia.
 * Sources (some of them):


 * 1) Female mate choice copying affects sexual selection in wild populations of the ocellated wrasse
 * 2) Mate choice copying in the sailfin molly, Poecilia latipinna, in the wild
 * 3) Mate-choice copying in Japanese quail, Coturnix coturnix japonica
 * 4) Preference for older over younger models during mate-choice copying in young guppies
 * 5) Evidence of mate choice copying in Norway rats, Rattus norvegicus
 * 6) Alternative mechanisms of nonindependent mate choice
 * 7) Mate-choice copying in black grouse

2. Contrafreeloading

 * The article is rated as a stub on the quality scale. It is underdeveloped and only defines the discussed concept. Moreover, the article is lacking examples and media representation of the concept. All the information mentioned have been mostly drawn from a single.
 * Sources (some of the sources) discussing the phenomenon:


 * 1) The free food (contrafreeloading) phenomenon: A review and analysis
 * 2) Free food or earned food? A review and fuzzy model of contrafreeloading
 * 3) A limitation of the contrafreeloading phenomenon
 * 4) Contrafreeloading in grizzly bears: implications for captive foraging enrichment
 * 5) I have other resources discussing the behavior in fowls, chicks, pigs, and even humans.

4. Whitten effect




Feedback (MF): There is in fact an article about mate choice copying (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mate_choice_copying) if you feel that this article needs more content you can go ahead and write about.

Contrafreeloading is in another student's list. I would contact Dr. Wilson if you really want to pursue this article.

If there is considerable research on the Vandenbergh and Whitten effects then they could be good articles. Remember that you need to write a good deal about the topic for your term assignment.

I would go with mate choice copying as it seems like a topic of interest to a number of researchers given the links you've included.