Origins of behavioural variability: categorical and discriminative assessment in serial contests
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The behavior of animal is challenging to document and understand largely due to its variability and apparent unpredictability. The hawk-dove game, the asymmetrical war of attrition and the sequential assessment game are the three basic approaches that are used to assess the pairwise contests.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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Measuring the reliability of skew indices: is there one best index?
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If unreliable indices are used, recommendation to measure skew with multiple indices is excessive and quite possibly misleading. The properties of B index, which are most reliable and useful under a wide range of assumptions, are presented.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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Costing reproduction
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The importance of the study of animal behavior in an evolutionary context for the modern biologists is discussed. The mechanisms into life history will be one of the most exciting tasks facing evolutionary biologists.
Publication Name: Animal Behaviour
Subject: Zoology and wildlife conservation
ISSN: 0003-3472
Year: 2003
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