Assessment during aggressive contests between male jumping spiders

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 901-910

  Elias, Damian O ^a,b   Kasumovic, Michael M ^a   Punzalan, David ^a   Andrade, Maydianne C B ^a   Mason, Andrew C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

cumulative assessment; jumping spider; male competition; multimodal communication; Phidippus clarus; self assessment; substrate borne signalling

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; GAME THEORY; INTRASEXUAL INTERACTION; MALE BEHAVIOR; SIGNALING; SPIDER; VIBRATION;

ARANEAE; PHIDIPPUS CLARUS; SALTICIDAE;

EID: 49149116606     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.01.032     Document Type: Article

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