Strutting their stuff: victory displays in the spring field cricket, Gryllus veletis

Fitzsimmons, Lauren P.; Rook, Vanessa; Bertram, Susan M.

doi:10.1163/000579510x514535

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“…We quantified aggression intensity as the sum of aggression scores divided by contest duration for the winner of each trial. Contest winners typically produce victory displays after contests (aggressive stridulation and body jerks, scored as three and one, respectively; [14,17,18]). We calculated victory display scores as the sum of weighted victory display behaviours [25].…”

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“…Winning a contest increases a male's mating success through male-male competition by providing access to mate attraction territories [12] or through female choice for dominant males [15]. Contest winners advertise their success via victory displays using aggressive songs and body jerks [12,14,[16][17][18]. Whether such displays serve to reinforce winner dominance (browbeating) or to communicate victory to mates or rivals (advertising; [5,19]) is unknown.…”

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“…All rights reserved. displays using aggressive songs and body jerks [12,14,[16][17][18]. Whether such displays serve to reinforce winner dominance (browbeating) or to communicate victory to mates or rivals (advertising; [5,19]) is unknown.…”

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Playing to an audience: the social environment influences aggression and victory displays

Fitzsimmons

Bertram

2013

Biol. Lett.

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Animal behaviour studies have begun to incorporate the influence of the social environment, providing new opportunities for studying signal strategies and evolution. We examined how the presence and sex of an audience influenced aggression and victory display behaviour in field-captured and laboratoryreared field crickets (Gryllus veletis). Audience type, rearing environment and their interaction were important predictors in all model sets. Thus, audience type may impose different costs and benefits for competing males depending on whether they are socially experienced or not. Our results suggest that field-captured winners, in particular, dynamically adjust their contest behaviour to potentially gain a reproductive benefit via female eavesdropping and may deter future aggression from rivals by advertising their aggressiveness and victories.

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Playing to an audience: the social environment influences aggression and victory displays

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Bertram

2013

Biol. Lett.

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“…The function of rocking, or juddering, is controversial. Rocking is usually suggested to be a component of agonistic display in crickets (Tachon et al, 1999;Bertram et al, 2010). The energetic expense of this display was shown to be of intermediate level, being, however, much higher than during aggressive stridulation (Hack, 1997).…”

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Loser in Fight but Winner in Love: How Does Inter-Male Competition Determine the Pattern and Outcome of Courtship in Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus?

Vedenina

Шестаков

2018

Front. Ecol. Evol.

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Animal females are generally assumed to prefer males that win fights. However, a growing number of studies in numerous animal taxa demonstrate no correlation between male fighting ability and their attractiveness, or even female preferences for fight losers. One of the methods to measure female preferences employs no-choice tests that evaluate a female's latency to mating when placed with a single male. Considering that courtship behavior generally contains multimodal signaling, we analyzed 19 behavioral elements demonstrated by both sexes of the cricket Gryllus bimaculatus during courtship. To estimate male dominance status, males were preliminarily tested in two rounds of fights. Females mounted males with different fighting ability equally often, but the latencies from the start of antennal contact to mount were shorter in fight losers than fight winners. During courtship, males with high fighting ability demonstrated one of the elements of agonistic display, rocking the body, more frequently, and for longer durations than males with low fighting ability. This element was negatively correlated with singing in fight winners but was positively correlated with singing a courtship song in fight losers. Rocking is thereby suggested to have multiple signaling functions in agonistic and courtship behavior. The song parameters were poorly related with male mating success. Fight winners, rather than fight losers, tended to produce a higher number of calling chirps, which could be explained by the inability of males with high fighting ability to quickly shift from aggression to courtship behavior. The results suggest that increased aggression in fight winners is likely to interfere with subsequent courtship.

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“…Conversely, in the Non-Observer treatment (N=32) the females did not observe the fight but then subsequently chose among the fight winner and loser. Note that (a) the males in the non-observer treatment were still fought in front of a female audience (non-focal females) to account for the effect of female audience on male aggression (Bertram et al, 2010;Montroy et al submitted), and (b) the non-observer females observed two males that were not allowed to physically interact during the 5 min acclimation and 15 minute trial to control for the effect of familiarity with males on future mating decisions (Cheetham et al, 2008). These two female treatments are illustrated by the schematic diagram in Figure 1.2.…”

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The effect of male-male fight observation on female choice and offspring quality in Gryllus assimilis

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Theory suggests that behaviours previously thought only to play a role in intrasexual selection can also be co-opted to serve as honest indicators of male quality. In Gryllus assimilis, males fight more aggressively in front of a female audience; their elevated aggression may serve as a mate attraction signal. I investigated how observing a fight influenced various measures of reproductive success. I had two treatments: (1) females observed a fight between two males or (2) females observed two non-interacting males. I then assessed female mate preference using dichotomous and no-choice tests. After mating, I allowed females to lay eggs and raised a subset of their offspring to adulthood.Females were more likely to mount dominant males, regardless of whether they had watched the fight, but dominant males did not have increased fecundity, viability, or offspring size. Audience effects in this species may not have evolved due to eavesdropping.iii

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Strutting their stuff: victory displays in the spring field cricket, Gryllus veletis

Cited by 26 publications

References 21 publications

Playing to an audience: the social environment influences aggression and victory displays

Playing to an audience: the social environment influences aggression and victory displays

Loser in Fight but Winner in Love: How Does Inter-Male Competition Determine the Pattern and Outcome of Courtship in Cricket Gryllus bimaculatus?

The effect of male-male fight observation on female choice and offspring quality in Gryllus assimilis

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