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Author Dugatkin, L.A.; Godin, G.J. doi  openurl
  Title Predator inspection, shoaling and foraging under predation hazard in the Trinidadian guppy,Poecilia reticulata Type Journal Article
  Year 1992 Publication Environmental Biology of Fishes Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 34 Issue 3 Pages 265-276  
  Keywords Antipredation – Social group – Feeding – Predation risk – Trade-off – Fish  
  Abstract Guppies,Poecilia reticulata, living in stream pools in Trinidad, West Indies, approached a potential fish predator (a cichlid fish model) in a tentative, saltatory manner, mainly as singletons or in pairs. Such behavior is referred to as predator inspection behavior. Inspectors approached the trunk and tail of the predator model more frequently, more closely and in larger groups than they approached the predator's head, which is presumably the most dangerous area around the predator. However, guppies were not observed in significantly larger shoals in the stream when the predator model was present. In a stream enclosure, guppies inspected the predator model more frequently when it was stationary compared to when it was moving, and made closer inspections to the posterior regions of the predator than to its head. Therefore, the guppies apparently regarded the predator model as a potential threat and modified their behavior accordingly when inspecting it. Guppies exhibited a lower feeding rate in the presence of the predator, suggesting a trade-off between foraging gains and safety against predation. Our results further suggest that predator inspection behavior may account for some of this reduction in foraging. These findings are discussed in the context of the benefits and costs of predator inspection behavior.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2176  
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Author Dugatkin, L.A. doi  openurl
  Title Cooperation in animals: An evolutionary overview Type Journal Article
  Year 2002 Publication Biology and Philosophy Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 17 Issue 4 Pages 459-476  
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  Abstract Evolutionary biologists have grappled with the question of the emergenceand maintenance of cooperation since Darwin first listed animal cooperation asapotential problem for his theory of natural selection. Here I review four pathsthat have been delineated in the study of intra-specific cooperation amonganimals. These paths – kinship, reciprocity, byproduct mutualism andgroupselection – serve as a starting point for behavioral ecologistsinterestedstudying the initiation and maintenance of cooperation. After reviewing theempirical and theoretical underpinnings of these paths to cooperation, I touchupon some recent work that has attempted to examine (or reexamine) the role ofphylogeny, punishment and morality in the light of cooperative behavior.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2179  
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Author Earley, R.L.; Tinsley, M.; Dugatkin, L.A. doi  openurl
  Title To see or not to see: does previewing a future opponent affect the contest behavior of green swordtail males (Xiphophorus helleri)? Type Journal Article
  Year 2003 Publication Naturwissenschaften Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 90 Issue 5 Pages 226-230  
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  Abstract Animals assess the fighting ability of conspecifics either by engaging in aggressive interactions or observing contests between others. However, whether individuals assess physical prowess outside the context of aggressive interactions remains unknown. We examined whether male green swordtails (Xiphophorus helleri) extract information about the fighting ability of solitary individuals via observation and whether acquiring such information elicits behavioral modifications. Contests preceded by mutual visual assessment were significantly shorter than fights where only one or neither of the two individuals was informed in advance. Focal animals initiated aggressive behavior more often against larger opponents only after previewing their adversary, indicating that swordtails can extract information about relative body size from watching solitary conspecifics. When a fighting disadvantage is perceived, observers adopt tactics that increase their probability of winning the contest.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 2180  
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Author Dugatkin, L.A.; Mesterton-Gibbons, M.; Houston, A.I. url  doi
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  Title Beyond the prisoner's dilemma: Toward models to discriminate among mechanisms of cooperation in nature Type Journal Article
  Year 1992 Publication Trends Evol. Ecol. Abbreviated Journal (up)  
  Volume 7 Issue Pages 202-205  
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  Abstract The iterated prisoner's dilemma game, or IPD, has now established itself as the orthodox paradigm for theoretical investigations of the evolution of cooperation; but its scope is restricted to reciprocity, which is only one of three categories of cooperation among unrelated individuals. Even within that category, a cooperative encounter has in general three phases, and the IPD has nothing to say about two of them. To distinguish among mechanisms of cooperation in nature, future theoretical work on the evolution of cooperation must distance itself from economics and develop games as a refinement of ethology's comparative approach.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Serial 4843  
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Author Hasenjager, M.J.; Dugatkin, L.A. url  doi
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  Title Social Network Analysis in Behavioral Ecology Type Book Chapter
  Year Publication Abbreviated Journal (up)  
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  Keywords Animal personalities; Animal social networks; Collective behavior; Cooperation; Dynamic networks; Emergent properties; Network theory; Social behavior; Social learning; Social structure  
  Abstract Abstract In recent years, behavioral ecologists have embraced social network analysis (SNA) in order to explore the structure of animal societies and the functional consequences of that structure. We provide a conceptual introduction to the field that focuses on historical developments, as well as on novel insights generated by recent work. First, we discuss major advances in the analysis of nonhuman societies, culminating in the use of SNA by behavioral ecologists. Next, we discuss how network-based approaches have enhanced our understanding of social structure and behavior over the past decade, focusing on: (1) information transmission, (2) collective behaviors, (3) animal personality, and (4) cooperation. These behaviors and phenomena possess several features—e.g., indirect effects, emergent properties—that network analysis is well equipped to handle. Finally, we highlight recent developments in SNA that are allowing behavioral ecologists to address increasingly sophisticated questions regarding the structure and function of animal sociality.  
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  Call Number Equine Behaviour @ team @ Hasenjager Serial 5863  
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Author Wilson, D.S.; Dugatkin, L.A. url  openurl
  Title A reply to Lombardi & Hurlbert Type Journal Article
  Year 1996 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal (up) Anim. Behav.  
  Volume 52 Issue 2 Pages 423-425  
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  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 475  
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Author Dugatkin, L.A.; Wilson, D.S. url  doi
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  Title Choice experiments and cognition: a reply to Lamprecht & Hofer Type Journal Article
  Year 1994 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal (up) Anim. Behav.  
  Volume 47 Issue 6 Pages 1459-1461  
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Author Mesterton-Gibbons, M.; Dugatkin, L.A. url  openurl
  Title Cooperation and the Prisoner's Dilemma: towards testable models of mutualism versus reciprocity Type Journal Article
  Year 1997 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal (up) Anim. Behav.  
  Volume 54 Issue 3 Pages 551-557  
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  Abstract For the purpose of distinguishing between mutualism and reciprocity in nature, recent work on the evolution of cooperation has both oversimplifed and undersimplified the distinction between these two categories of cooperation. This article addresses the resulting issues of model testability, clarifies the role of time and argues that the category of `pseudo-reciprocity' is an unnecessary complication.  
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Author Dugatkin, L.A. url  doi
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  Title Tit for Tat, by-product mutualism and predator inspection: a reply to Connor Type Journal Article
  Year 1996 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal (up) Anim. Behav.  
  Volume 51 Issue 2 Pages 455-457  
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Author Godin, J.-G.J.; Herdman, E.J.E.; Dugatkin, L.A. url  doi
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  Title Social influences on female mate choice in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata: generalized and repeatable trait-copying behaviour Type Journal Article
  Year 2005 Publication Animal Behaviour. Abbreviated Journal (up) Anim. Behav.  
  Volume 69 Issue 4 Pages 999-1005  
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  Abstract In vertebrates, the mating preferences of individual females can be flexible and the probability of a female mating with a particular male can be significantly increased by her having previously observed another conspecific female affiliate and mate with that same male. In theory, such mate-choice-copying behaviour has potentially important consequences for both the genetic and social (`cultural') transmission of female mating preferences. For copying to result in the `cultural inheritance' of mating preferences, individual females must not only copy the mate choice decisions of other females but they also should tend to repeat this type of behaviour (i.e. make similar mating decisions) subsequently and to generalize their socially induced preference for a particular male to other males that share his distinctive characteristics. Here, we show experimentally that individual female guppies, Poecilia reticulata, not only copy the observed mating preferences of other females for particular males, but that the preference now assumed via copying is subsequently repeated and generalized to other males of a similar colour phenotype. These results provide empirical evidence for social enhancement of female preference for particular phenotypic traits of chosen males rather than for the particular males possessing those traits, and thus have important implications for our understanding of the role of social learning in the evolution of female mating preferences and of male epigamic traits.  
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  Call Number refbase @ user @ Serial 490  
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