Assessments of fighting ability need not be cognitively complex
Fawcett, TW; Mowles, SL
Date: 4 October 2013
Article
Journal
Animal Behaviour
Publisher
Elsevier Masson
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Abstract
Highlights
• We dispute claims that assessing relative fighting ability is cognitively complex.
• Very simple mechanisms allow sensitivity to own and/or opponent fighting ability.
• Correlational approaches are of limited use in distinguishing forms of assessment.
• We should expect continuous variation in both self- and opponent ...
Highlights
• We dispute claims that assessing relative fighting ability is cognitively complex.
• Very simple mechanisms allow sensitivity to own and/or opponent fighting ability.
• Correlational approaches are of limited use in distinguishing forms of assessment.
• We should expect continuous variation in both self- and opponent assessment.
• Assessment strategies may change dynamically with age, role and contest phase.
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