Weaponry and defenses in fighting animals: how allometry can alter predictions from contest theory

Alexandre V. Palaoro and Mark Briffa

Behavioral Ecology, 2017, vol. 28, issue 1, 328-336

Abstract: Lay Summary How do animals decide to give up on a fight? Fighting ability is central to the answer, and we may be assuming that it increases linearly with body size, when that may not be entirely true. Here, we adapt a framework for analyzing fights to allow fighting ability to increase exponentially with body size. We show that when that assumption is considered, the answer may differ.

Keywords: assessment models; agonistic behavior; resource holding potential; contest duration; allometric scaling (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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