Response to Comment on "Females engaging in adaptive hybridization prefer high-quality heterospecifics as mates"

Braun et al. contend that we did not account for survival, but we did. Differential survival does not alter our conclusions, which were also robust to removing anomalous families. They ignore the study system's natural history justifying our fitness measures, while failing to account for our behavioral data. We stand by our conclusion that females adaptively choose among heterospecific males. Hybridization is adaptive if its fitness benefits outweigh its costs (1).