This methodology provides a realistic picture of what
a male does over the entire rut in terms of both time
spent in different behaviours and use of alternative
mating tactics, because it samples most of the day
for each individual, every day of the mating season.
More details on the sampling of time budgets and
computation of the proportion of time spent in mating
tactics are reported elsewhere (Pelletier 2005;
Pelletier et al. 2006).