Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour

Briffa, Mark; Sneddon, Lynne U.; Wilson, Alastair J.

doi:10.1098/rsbl.2014.1007

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“…Empirical studies, across a range of species, have demonstrated consistent between-individual differences in aggressiveness, characterized by its repeatability over time and across situations (reviewed in Briffa, Sneddon, & Wilson, 2015). Aggression has been defined as overt behaviour that is intended to inflict physical damage to another (reviewed in Nelson & Trainor, 2007).…”

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“…Aggression has been defined as overt behaviour that is intended to inflict physical damage to another (reviewed in Nelson & Trainor, 2007). In the context of animal contests, aggressiveness has recently been mentioned as the propensity of an individual to use agonistic behaviour that could include initiating a contest, escalating a contest and attacking an opponent (glossary of Briffa et al, 2015). Intuitively, one might predict that a more aggressive individual may be more likely to win against a less aggressive opponent.…”

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“…If so, aggressiveness would constitute an important determinant of RHP. However, the importance of integrating animal personality within existing contest theory has only recently been acknowledged (Briffa et al, 2015), with aggressiveness generally having been overlooked. However, boldness has been studied in contest settings in sea anemones, with boldness being correlated with aggressiveness (Rudin & Briffa, 2012).…”

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“…First, availability of resources will drive the motivation to fight, the likelihood of engaging in a fight being inversely proportional to the availability of resources and proportional to the value of the contested resource unit [16]. Second, individuals might vary in aggressiveness and highly aggressive individuals should experience more fights than those with lower levels of aggression [53].…”

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The role of skill in animal contests: a neglected component of fighting ability

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2017

Proc. R. Soc. B.

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What attributes make some individuals more likely to win a fight than others? A range of morphological and physiological traits have been studied intensely but far less focus has been placed on the actual agonistic behaviours used. Current studies of agonistic behaviour focus on contest duration and the vigour of fighting. It also seems obvious that individuals that fight more skilfully should have a greater chance of winning a fight. Here, we discuss the meaning of skill in animal fights. As the activities of each opponent can be disrupted by the behaviour of their rival, we differentiate among ability, technique and skill itself. In addition to efficient, accurate and sometimes precise movement, skilful fighting also requires rapid decision-making, so that appropriate tactics and strategies are selected. We consider how these different components of skill could be acquired, through genes, experiences of play-fighting and of real fights. Skilful fighting can enhance resource holding potential (RHP) by allowing for sustained vigour, by inflicting greater costs on opponents and by minimizing the chance of damage. Therefore, we argue that skill is a neglected but important component of RHP that could be readily studied to provide new insights into the evolution of agonistic behaviour.

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“…Our first review was published earlier this year on 'Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour' [8]. To date, we have published five reviews, and we intend to maintain a flow of review papers at the rate of approximately one per month.…”

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2015

Biol. Lett.

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In the year that Philosophical Transactions turns 350 years old, we celebrate the 10th anniversary of Biology Letters; somewhat less auspicious but nevertheless an important milestone and a proud achievement for the journal and its team.After 2 years being published as a supplement to Proceedings B from 2003 to 2005, Biology Letters published its first issue as an independent journal on 21 March 2005. In his inaugural editorial, the first Editor-in-Chief, Brian Charlesworth, looked to the future with optimism and with the objective then, as now, for Biology Letters to become a leading, if not the leading, short format, rapid publication journal for the biological sciences [1].Ten years later, we are well on our way to achieving that ambition. We now publish approximately 200 papers per year with an issue every month. Readership continues to expand apace with submissions continuing to increase year-on-year in a growing global market, a trend that is also reflected by the widening geographical spread of our authorship.We provide our authors with the best possible service in terms of speed, feedback and media promotion. We are maintaining highly competitive publication times, with our time from submission to a first decision on a manuscript averaging just 24 days in 2014, and our articles continuing to garner significant media coverage-from the observations of the spine of the hero shrew [2], through to chimpanzees using tools to retrieve food [3].Our aim to cover all the biological sciences is also being fulfilled, providing readers not only with cutting edge papers in their own fields but also providing access to innovative work being carried out across the full biological spectrum.Animal behaviour and evolutionary biology are our two most popular subject areas. The latter includes our most cited paper so far by Ericson et al.[4] on 'Diversification of Neoaves: integration of molecular sequence data and fossils' a multi-authored paper describing definitive molecular evidence for an early Tertiary diversification of bird lineages consistent with the fossil evidence. Our second most highly cited paper is currently by Keith et al. [5] in the area of global change biology on 'Predicting extinction risks under climate change: coupling stochastic population models with dynamic bioclimatic habitat models'. It was this contribution to our special feature in 2008 on 'Global change and biodiversity ' [6] that illustrated the need to understand the relationship between habitat change and population dynamics in predicting the response of species to future climate change.In addition to citations, our article downloads are rapidly increasing, with more than 1.3 million full-text downloads seen in 2014. Our all-time download record concerned a study carried out and co-authored by school children. Given the simple title of 'Blackawton bees ' [7], the study was co-ordinated by Beau Lotto from UCL's Institute of Opthalmology, but the hypotheses and experiments were devised by a class of 25 eight-to ten-year-old children who also...

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Animal personality as a cause and consequence of contest behaviour

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Aggressiveness as a component of fighting ability in pigs using a game-theoretical framework

Aggressiveness as a component of fighting ability in pigs using a game-theoretical framework

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