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Muscularity and strength affect individual variation in self-perception of fighting ability in men
(2019)
Objective: There is evidence that competitive conflicts are the main form of intrasexual competition among men. The capacity to recognize visual cues of fighting ability in competitors is thought to be an important ...
Winning and losing: Causes for variability in outcome of fights in male Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus)
(Oxford Univ Press Inc, 2002-01)
Game theory models predict that fighting ability should be more important in contest outcome when the payoffs of winning are high for both contestants, and ownership should be more important when payoffs are low. Male ...
Androgen receptor gene and sociosexuality. Does fighting ability moderate the effect of genetics in reproductive strategies?
(2022-12)
Sociosexuality is a reliable proxy to evaluate the trade-off between short-term and long-term human mating strategies. The androgen receptor (AR) gene CAG-repeats polymorphism regulates the effect of testosterone and the ...
Chemoreception and the assessment of fighting abilities in the lizard Liolaemus monticola
(BLACKWELL, 2006-10)
When an individual faces the risk of a conflict, its ability to make 'correct' decisions is crucial to its fitness. Research on decision making has focused mainly on visual and acoustic signals, while chemical signals have ...
Um conto sobre a agressividade: valor de recurso, tomada de decisão e adaptações morfológicas
(Universidade Federal de Santa MariaBrasilBioquímicaUFSMPrograma de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade AnimalCentro de Ciências Naturais e Exatas, 2017-02-15)
Agonistic behavior is ubiquituous in nature. Hence, understanding how and why it occurs is fundamental for unravelling its influence in the evolution of behavior. The goals of this thesis are: to test the influence of ...
Early social environment and the fighting behaviour of young Oreochromis niloticus (Pisces, Cichlidae)
(Brill Academic Publishers, 1998-10-01)
This study examines the influence of early experience with different forms of aggressive behaviour on the fighting behaviour of young fish. Fry of the cichlid fish, Oreochromis niloticus, were raised from hatching in small ...
Early social environment and the fighting behaviour of young Oreochromis niloticus (Pisces, Cichlidae)
(Brill Academic Publishers, 1998-10-01)
This study examines the influence of early experience with different forms of aggressive behaviour on the fighting behaviour of young fish. Fry of the cichlid fish, Oreochromis niloticus, were raised from hatching in small ...
Fish adjust aggressive behavior to audience size with limited information on bystanders’ fighting ability
(2017-09-01)
In a social environment, individual behavior is modulated by surrounding observers (a phenomenon known as the audience effect). Here, we used mirrors to test the effect of two audience sizes (one virtual bystander vs. three ...
Early social environment and the fighting behaviour of young Oreochromis niloticus (Pisces, Cichlidae)
(Brill Academic Publishers, 2014)