Honesty of agonistic signalling and effects of size and motivation asymmetry in contests

Acta Ethologica

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 13-21

  Kotiaho, Janne S ^a,b   Alatalo, Rauno V ^a   Mappes, Johanna ^a   Parri, Silja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Female choice; Fighting success; Honest signalling; Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata; Sequential assessment; Sexual selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002472066     PISSN: 08739749     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/PL00012227     Document Type: Article

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