Prior contest information: Mechanisms underlying winner and loser effects

Yuying Hsu*, I. Han Lee, Chung Kai Lu

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摘要

Animals' contest performance is influenced by their recent contest experiences. This influence could either be exerted by individuals re-estimating their own fighting ability (self-assessment) or by their opponents responding to status-related cues (social-cue mechanism) or both. Individuals of Kryptolebias marmoratus, a hermaphroditic killifish, were given different contest experiences to examine how two opponents' prior experiences combined to determine their contest interaction and to test both of these mechanisms as potential causes of the observed experience effect. Our data showed that losers' decisions to retreat at different stages of a contest were influenced by their own but not by the winners' contest experience-a result consistent with self-assessment but not with the social-cue mechanism. An association between the fish initiating and winning contests thus probably arose because both were correlated with an individual's assessment of its fighting ability, but not because initiating contests made opponents more inclined to retreat.

原文英語
頁(從 - 到)1247-1257
頁數11
期刊Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
63
發行號9
DOIs
出版狀態已發佈 - 2009 7月

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • 生態學、進化論、行為學與系統學
  • 動物科學與動物學

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