The Roaring of Red Deer and the Evolution of Honest Advertisement
- 1 January 1979
- Vol. 69 (3-4), 145-170
- https://doi.org/10.1163/156853979x00449
Abstract
In many large animals, changes in fighting ability within breeding seasons or across the lifetime of individuals are related to changes in body condition but not to obvious changes in size. In situations where a conflict of interests is likely to lead to a fight, we might consequently expect opponents to assess each other on traits which are related to variation in body condition. This appears to be the case among red deer stags. CompetingKeywords
This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
- The logical stag: Adaptive aspects of fighting in red deer (Cervus elaphus L.)Animal Behaviour, 1979
- Factors affecting reproduction in red deer (Cervus elaphus) hinds on RhumReproduction, 1978
- Territories and the Food Plant of Individual Red Grouse: I. Territory Size, Number of Mates and Brood Size Compared with the Abundance, Production and Diversity of HeatherJournal of Animal Ecology, 1978
- Agonistic Behavior in Nesting Iguanas: A Stochastic Analysis of Dispute Settlement Dominated by the Minimization of Energy CostZeitschrift Fur Tierpsychologie, 1976
- Teeth as indicators of age with special reference to Red deer (Cervus elaphus) of known age from RhumJournal of Zoology, 1967
- Variations in Territorial Behavior of Uganda Kob Adenota Kob Thomasi (Neumann 1896)Behaviour, 1966