2014
DOI: 10.1163/1568539x-00003199
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Morphological and behavioural correlates of contest success in male yellow-headed geckos, Gonatodes albogularis: sequential assessment or self-assessment?

Abstract: Gonatodes albogularis is a small diurnal gecko that lives in Central and northern South America and whose behaviour has been rarely analysed. This study describes the behaviour patterns occurring during agonistic encounters between male geckos, assesses the effect of morphological and behavioural traits on aggressive intensity and contest outcome, and tests predictions of the sequential assessment and self-assessment models of animal contests. We staged encounters between randomly paired wild-caught males in a… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
1
1
1

Citation Types

0
8
0

Year Published

2015
2015
2022
2022

Publication Types

Select...
7

Relationship

0
7

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 11 publications
(8 citation statements)
references
References 49 publications
0
8
0
Order By: Relevance
“…Indeed, many recent studies using the framework of examining relations between contestant RHP and contest costs have produced inconclusive results in terms of support for a particular strategy (e.g. Prenter, Elwood & Taylor, 2006;Martínez-Cotrina, Bohórquez-Alonso & Molina-Borja, 2014;McGinley, Prenter & Taylor 2015). These studies use measures that indicate direct costs (e.g.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Indeed, many recent studies using the framework of examining relations between contestant RHP and contest costs have produced inconclusive results in terms of support for a particular strategy (e.g. Prenter, Elwood & Taylor, 2006;Martínez-Cotrina, Bohórquez-Alonso & Molina-Borja, 2014;McGinley, Prenter & Taylor 2015). These studies use measures that indicate direct costs (e.g.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This may account for mounting recent empirical evidence of selfassessment (e.g. Brandt & Swallow, 2009;Copeland, Levay, Sivaraman, Beebe-Fugloni, & Earley, 2011;Rudin & Briffa, 2011;Tanner & Jackson, 2011;Martinez-Cotrina, Bohorquez-Alonso, & Molina-Borja, 2014;Tsai, Barrows, & Weiss, 2014).…”
mentioning
confidence: 98%
“…see Appendix VIII for the details. The payoffs (34) are different from the payoffs W (16) because condition (24) does not hold. This result is unique -only an equalizer strategy can marginalize interactions of a strategy with its mutants and there is single equalizer strategy with payoffs (34) that predicts outcome probabilities without mutual cooperation Ω CC = 0.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There is empirical evidence that some species implement self-assessment: they use only information regarding their own state, rather than the state of the competitor, to decide whether to flee or keep fighting for a territory or mating opportunity [28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35]. There is evidence for the existence of a significant variety of assessment techniques in animal contests [6,[36][37][38][39][40][41][42], for a review, see [3][4][5].…”
Section: M1mentioning
confidence: 99%