Modulating aggression through experience
Hsu, Y.; Earley, R.L.; Wolf, L.L. (2006). Modulating aggression through experience, in: Brown, C. et al. (Ed.) Fish cognition and behavior. Fish and Aquatic Resources Series, 11: pp. 96-118 In: Brown, C.; Laland, K.N.; Krause, J. (Ed.) (2006). Fish cognition and behavior. Fish and Aquatic Resources Series, 11. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford. ISBN 978-1-4051-3429-3. XVIII, 328 pp., more In: Pitcher, T.J. (Ed.) Fish and Aquatic Resources Series. Blackwell Science: Oxford. ISSN 1746-2606, more |
| Keywords | Aquaculture
Behaviour > Aggressive behaviour
Behaviour > Feeding behaviour > Foraging behaviour
Behaviour > Learning behaviour
Bioenergetics
Nutrition
Marine/Coastal |
| Authors | | Top | - Hsu, Y.
- Earley, R.L.
- Wolf, L.L.
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| Abstract | Aggressive interactions are a common means of contesting resources for most animals. Considerable variation occurs in whether a specific individual wins a particular aggressive contest. Influences on the behaviour of individuals that might produce this variation include, among many factors, hunger, size, residency and age (Beaugrand et al. 1996; Hsu et al. 2006). Behavioural ecologists have been quite successful in understanding variation in contest outcomes, employing benefit/cost models to predict such things as contest duration and winner (e.g. Riechert 1998). Benefits are immediate or longer-term positive effects on fitness of the individual, such as gaining access to food or mates as a result of the contest. Costs include time and energy spent in the contest as well as the possibility of being injured or the increased chance of being taken by a predator. |
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