Unit 9 Aggression Flashcards
Aggression
Aggression is about conflict, conflict is about resources.
Animal come into conflict over things they need, with the winner of the conflict
receiving resources. That’s what mediates the costs of fighting. Fights are costly,
though. Individuals often get injured or kille
Aggressive signals
Age and the value of survival
Agnostic behaviour
behaviour that mediates conflict (signaling/fighting)
Dear enemies
Ned Flanders
Dominance hierarchies
ESS
Honest signaling
Lvl encounter and the pokemon
differencr in competition
Motivation
Owner’s advantage
Resource holding potential
max strength physical strength
The cost of fighting
The Hawk-Dove game
The Hawg-DOve-Assessor game
The sequential assessment model
WInner effects
winning increases the probability of
winning future fights. * The act of winning itself predicts
more winning.
loser effects, bystander effects, audience effects
- Loser effects: The opposite. Losing increases the
probability of losing in future fights.
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Deter of fight outcomes
rhp
motivation
experience
Agressive behaviour
Behaviordesigned to inflict noxious
stimulation order struction on another animal for other than predation
RHP
Resource holding potential
The ability to win an escalated fight
* Body size is most of itWinner
important
bystander effects
