Selection should favour accurate information gathering regarding the likely costs and
benefits of continued conflict. Here we consider how variation in the abilities of contestants …

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 …

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

Assessment strategies are an important component in game theoretical models of contests.
Strategies can be either based on one's own abilities (self-assessment) or on the relative …

Sexual Biology and Reproduction in Crustaceans covers crustacean reproduction as it deals
with the structural morphology of the gamete-producing primary sex organs, such as the …

Competition for resources is a ubiquitous feature of life, and a central topic in behavioral
ecology. Organisms use assessment strategies to resolve contests, which can be delineated …

Emotions encompass cognitive and behavioural responses to reward and punishment.
Using contests as a case-study, we propose that short-term emotions underpin animals' …

Many game‐theoretical models assume that the outcome of agonistic interactions depends
on morphological and physiological asymmetries between rivals (the RHP‐asymmetry …

Females often aggregate at particular sites for feeding or shelter, thus giving adult males the
opportunity to defend harems and increase male reproductive success. Rival males …

To determine whether animals assess each other's fighting ability in contests, researchers
usually regress contest duration over the sizes of the contestants. The predominant trend in …