Summary 1 Contests may involve injurious fighting, other types of direct physical aggression
and communication. They occur over ownership access to mates and other resources that …

A large number of sexual selection studies have focused on examining the morphological
and behavioural factors involved in male combat and female choice, such as whether large …

The book aims to integrate our understanding of mammalian societies into a novel synthesis
that is relevant to behavioural ecologists, ecologists, and anthropologists. It adopts a …

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

In spite of their relatively small size as a group of insects, dung beetles have attracted an
inordinate amount of scientific interest over the years, starting with the work of the French …

Sexual selection operates by acting on variation in mating success. However, since
selection acts on whole‐organism manifestations (ie, performance) of underlying …

Beetle horns are enlarged outgrowths of the head or thorax that are used as weapons in
contests over access to mates. Horn development is typically confined to males (sexual …

Despite the empirical and theoretical attention paid to the role of sexual signals in resolving
agonistic interactions between conspecific males, few studies have applied a comparative …

Secondary sexual characters are often positively allometric, such that larger individuals of a
species have proportionally larger traits. The sexually selected weapons found on many …

During contests the outcome is ultimately determined by the difference in fighting ability or
resource holding potential (RHP) of opponents and the loser may make the decision to give …