‘Nesting-assistance’: a new hypothesis for the evolution of polyandry and a test in an African foam nesting treefrog

Nesting-assistance’: a new hypothesis for the evolution of polyandry and a test in an African foam nesting treefrog
Data analysed for the paper.
Description: Data was collected from a population of African foam nesting treefrogs (Chiromantis xerampelina) located in Hans Merensky Nature Reserve (24e25380S, 31e22400E, 462 m a.s.l.) in Limpopo Province, South Africa. Data was collected on 99 consecutive breeding nights between November 19, 2006 and March 3, 2007.
We collected data on:
1.     The leg churning behaviour of frogs involved in making 65 nests to assess; i) the degree of synchrony in leg churning behaviour and ii) the proportion of time of female leg churning that also involved male leg churning.
2.     Ellipsoid nest volume (ml) and the body size (snout-vent length, SVL) of females that made the nests for 134 matings.
3.     Nest success for 134 nests, including data on the cause of nest failure (either nests des..., , # Data from: ‘Nesting-assistance’: a new hypothesis for the evolution of polyandry and a test in an African foam nesting treefrog

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.9s4mw6mx8](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.9s4mw6mx8)

## Description of the data and file structure

### Files and variables

#### File: NEW_Dryad-_all_data_Microsoft_Excel_Worksheet_-_Copy_-_Copy_-_Copy.xlsx

**Description:** The excel file contains 5 tabs/ data sheets.

Tab 1: **Synchrony data**. This tab contains data used to calculate the degree of behavioural synchrony in leg churning behaviour, and the percentage of time of a female-leg churning bout that male-leg churning was also observed.  Column A shows the nest number (nest 1-65). Column B shows the number of males involved in nest construction. Column C shows the time interval (recorded in seconds) ‘before’ a female started leg churning, and then again ‘after’ the same female started leg churning, noting that the ‘before’ time matches the duration of the ‘after’ time. T..., ,