Social plasticity and individuality shape variation in contest behaviour.

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Physical contests are critical in most animals in determining access to limited resources such as territories, food and sexual partners. Individuals should base their decision to engage and escalate a contest on the potential returns and the probability of winning against a specific opponent. Although variation in competitive ability should maintain variation in contest behaviour within populations, empirical...

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