Fighting ability, personality and melanin signalling in free-living Eurasian tree sparrows (Passer montanus).

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals' access to resources is often decided during dyadic contests the outcome of which is determined by the fighting (or competitive) ability of the participants. Individuals' fighting ability (termed also as resource-holding power or potential, RHP) is usually associated with individual features (e.g., sex, age, body size) and is also frequently signalled through various ornaments like the black throat patch (bib) in many birds. Individual personality is a behavioural attribute often linked to fighting ability as well. Based on earlier studies, however, the relationship between personality and fighting ability is far from being straightforward. While accounting for sex and body size, we studied whether exploratory behaviour, an aspect of personality, predi

SUBMITTER: Fulop A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9341450 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature