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Animal Behavior Aggression
Aggression
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Biology
Undergraduate 4
05/03/2010

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Benefits of Living in a Group (4)
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Antipredator, FOraging, Social, Mating
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Costs of Living Together
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Competition, Disease, Conspicuousness, Cheating
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4 Options to avert Conflict
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Disperse, Share, Dominance, Territoriality
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Aggression
Definition
the fighting instinct in beast and man which is directed against members of the same species
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Agonistic Behavior
Definition
a system of behavior patterns with the common function of adjustment of situations of conflict among conspecifics
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Dominance
Definition
The ability of one member of a group to assert itself over others in acquiring access to a limiting resource (e.g. food, mates, nesting sites) that would increase fitness.
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Dominance Hierarchy
Definition
Relationships between group members that result in predictable interactions.
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Despot
Definition
One Dominant, Subordinates Equal
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Linear
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Pecking Order
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Triangular
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Rock paper scissors
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Alliance
Definition
A is greater than B and C. C plus B can overthrow A.
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Resource Holding Potential
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Ability to control resource
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Evolutionary Stable Strategy
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Strategy that provides maximum individual payoffs
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Conditional ESS
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Stable strategy set in which a single individual sometimes performs one strategy and sometimes another with probability p
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Stable Polymorphism
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Stable polymorphic state in which a fraction, p, of the population adopts one strategy while the remainder, 1-p, adopts the other
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