Switching assessment strategy during a contest: fighting in killifish Kryptolebias marmoratus

By Y. Hsu, Shih Pin Lee, Mengyue Chen, Shi Yi Yang, K. Cheng. 2008

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Understanding how animals fight with Lloyd Morgan's canon (2012, background): “By contrast, the later escalated phases are affected by the loser’s size but not the winner’s size (Hsu et al. 2008).”
Difficulties remain in distinguishing between mutual and self-assessment in animal contests (2009, background): “2008) and killifish, Kryptolebias marmoratus (Hsu et al. 2008), but owing to factors such as the presence of energetic thresholds (crickets) and ethological details of contest dynamics (shore crabs, crickets, jumping spiders and killifish) it seems unlikely that these contests are settled purely on ”
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).”
Assessment of fighting ability in animal contests (2009, background): “However, once the contest is escalated, their opponent’s abilities no longer influence their fighting decision, and they persist in accord only with their own threshold of costs (Hsu et al. 2008).”