The assessment game in sand fiddler crab contests for breeding burrows

By A. Pratt, D. McLain, Grace R. Lathrop. 2003

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Fighting for harems: assessment strategies during male–male contests in the sexually dimorphic Wellington tree weta (2006, unknown): “Wellington tree weta contests agree with the cumulative assessment model in that they showed intraphase (contests occur in one phase) escalation; sequential assessment predicts interphase escalation (more than one phase with each phase being more intense than the previous) (Pratt et al. 2003).”
Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests (2009, background): “For example, the single enlarged claw of male fiddler crabs, Uca pugilator, plays a major role in contests, which consist of a number of behavioural elements (Pratt et al. 2003).”
Fighting in fiddler crabs Uca mjoebergi: what determines duration? (2005, background): “Many empirical studies have tested and found support for these models, finding that contest duration increases as some measure of the difference between competitors in RHP decreases (e.g. Englund & Olsson 1990; Enquist et al. 1990; Leimar et al. 1991; Faber & Baylis 1993; Marden & Rollins 1994; Smit”
Costs of bearing a sexually selected ornamental weapon in a fiddler crab (2007, background): “Fitness benefits accruing to large males with relatively large claws are well documented; such males win more contests, display with greater vigour and are attractive to females (Hyatt & Salmon 1978; Christy 1983; Jennions & Backwell 1998; Pratt & McLain 2002; Pratt, McLain & Lathrop 2003 ).”