Social interactions are ubiquitous across the animal kingdom. A variety of ecological and
evolutionary processes are dependent on social interactions, such as movement, disease …

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 …

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

Honest signalling assumes a correlation between an observable signal and a
nonobservable quality. There are many mutually nonexclusive mechanisms that can …

Fishes employ many and diverse strategies to increase oxygen transfer from the
environment to their tissues and/or avoid problems associated with hypoxia. Some of these …

The use of robotics to establish social interactions between animals and robots, represents
an elegant and innovative method to investigate animal behaviour. However, robots are still …

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 …

The response of bystanders to information available in their social environment can have a
potent influence on the evolution of cooperation and signalling systems. In the presence of …

Aggressive interactions are ubiquitous among animals. They are either directed towards
heterospecifics, like predators or competitors, or conspecifics. During intraspecific …

Courtship displays should be exaggerated enough to attract mates and yet tempered so as
not to deter them. We tested this hypothesis in the fighting fish Betta splendens by studying …