Self-assessment by males during energetically costly contests over precopula females in amphipods

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Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests (2009, background): “However, an animal might be able to gather some information about the opponent but not enough to equal that about itself (Prenter et al. 2006).”
Rules of engagement for resource contests in a social fish (2011, result): “Contests in a wide variety of taxa appear to be consistent with the logic of self-assessment (Bridge et al. 2000; Morrell et al. 2005; Prenter et al. 2006; Stuart-Fox 2006; Brandt & Swallow 2009).”
Switching assessment strategy during a contest: fighting in killifish Kryptolebias marmoratus (2008, background): “…shown that the primary relationship is between the contest duration and the size of the smaller animal (e.g. Taylor et al. 2001b; Jennings et al. 2004; Prenter et al. 2006; but see Kemp et al. 2006): the inverse relationship with size disparity is merely a by-product of this (Taylor & Elwood 2003).”
Decisions during fights in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus: mutual or self assessment of energy, weapons and size? (2008, background): “Further, in contrast to other taxa such as hermit crabs (Briffa & Elwood 2005), mantis shrimps, Gonodactylus bredini (Adams & Caldwell 1990), or gammarids (Prenter et al. 2006) where there are two clearly defined ‘roles’ that show different repertoires of agonistic behaviour ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR, 75, 3 ”