Decisions during fights in the house cricket, Acheta domesticus: mutual or self assessment of energy, weapons and size?

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Difficulties remain in distinguishing between mutual and self-assessment in animal contests (2009, background): “2007), house crickets, Acheta domesticus (Briffa 2008), jumping spiders, Phidippus clarus (Elias et al.”
Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests (2009, methodology): “Furthermore, Briffa (2008) used the approach advocated by Taylor & Elwood (2003) to find support for CAM in male house cricket contests but subsequently questioned this support based on studies (Hack 1997a, b) showing both escalation and de-escalation, in terms of the choice of agonistic tactic, whi”
Rules of engagement for resource contests in a social fish (2011, background): “Contest behaviour that does not conform precisely to any of the existing models has been observed in a variety of taxa (e.g. Jennings et al. 2004; Briffa & Elwood 2002; Kelly 2006; Briffa 2008; Elias et al. 2008; Hsu et al. 2008).”