Contestants are predicted to adjust the cost of a fight in line with the perceived value of the
resource and this provides a way of determining whether the resource has been assessed …

What attributes make some individuals more likely to win a fight than others? A range of
morphological and physiological traits have been studied intensely but far less focus has …

Literature Cited to accompany Animal Communication, 2e Page 1 Principles of Animal
Communication, Second Edition Jack W. Bradbury and Sandra L. Vehrencamp Chapter 14 …

This book provides an up-to-date review of the biology of parasitic Hymenoptera, focusing
primarily on genetics, developmental biology, physiology, anatomy and molecular biology …

In this chapter we discuss how to make best use of sex ratio data. We identify three basic
questions that such data can be used to answer: does the sex ratio differ from some …

In birds, individuals with a higher mass at fledging have a higher probability of recruiting into
the breeding population. This can be because mass is an indicator of general condition and …

Explaining the “prior-residence effect”(automatic owner status of individuals who arrived first
in an area) was one of the very first applications of game theory in animal behavior. These …

This book introduces game theory and its applications from an applied mathematician's
perspective, systematically develo** tools and concepts for game-theoretic modelling in …

We purchased samples of 27 parasitoids, six coccinellid beetles, and the predatory midge
Aphidoletes aphidimyza (Rondani) from commercial insectaries and scored the sex ratios …

Contest duration in animals is often interpreted as being a consequence of mutual
assessment of the difference in the competitors' resource-holding potential (RHP), allowing …