Traditional theories of sexual selection predict that females should be the choosier sex in most species because of their higher investment in offspring production and lower variance in fitness (Andersson, 1994;Bateman, 1948). Although this is often the case, there is increasing evidence in various species that males will show courtship and mating preferences for certain females over others when given a choice (Amundsen, 2000;Bonduriansky, 2001;Edward & Chapman, 2011). This is not surprising, as males can experience significant costs associated with courtship and mating, and females often vary in quality, with some females producing more and/or higher quality