Chapter 15 Flashcards
Aggression or agnostic behavior
threatening signals or combat
Loons
Form habitats on islands because they are protective, limits predation, but lowers reproductive success
Fighting depends on
quality of opponent
what others are doing
value of resources
Hawk dove game
hawks always fight, doves act like they will but never do
not flexible
(V-C)/2
Hawk dove bourgeois game
fight when youre an owner retreat when youre an intruder
evolutionary stable strategy
speckled wood butter flies
Hawk dove antibourgeois game
owner always vacates
mexican spider
War of attrition
display aggression or wait
dungflies
ess is to be random
depends on what others do
Sequential assessment model
assess opponent fighting capability
aggression starts low and increases if their levels are similar
more evenly matched=longer fights