PSYCH 3T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lek Mating, Bluegill, Isopoda
4 Apr 2016
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More extreme ighing when the size of the prize is bigger (elephant seals large harems) Fighing has a ritualized form in most species to balance costs and beneits. Assessment may take ime, but won"t cause injury. Can decide whether to ight or not based on assessment. If the individuals are well matched and moivated, then it may lead to an all out ight. How much energy they have to put towards a ight. Bigger individuals have more physical ability to win a ight, have more resource holding power. A ight between two small guys would be shorter than between two big guys. Relaionship between body size and ight duraion bigger individuals ight longer. Fights are between two, and the asymmetry between them has a large impact on the ight. Use rhp to model ights and predict ight intensity, duraion. The bigger the size asymmetry, the shorter the ight.
