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Rapid beard darkening predicts contest outcome, not copulation success, in bearded dragon lizards

Ashton L Dickerson, Katrina J Rankin, Viviana Cadena, John A Endler, Devi Stuart-Fox

Animal Behaviour | ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2020

DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2020.10.014

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Funding Acknowledgements

We thank AdamElliott, Adnan Moussalli and Tim Jessop for field assistance, and Katie Smith for captive husbandry. This work was supported by the Australian Research Council (DP120100105) to D.S-F and J.A.E.

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Keywords

Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Natural-Selection
Model Selection
Social Signal
Evolution
Courtship
Intrasexual Selection
Multimodel Inference
Dominance
Territoriality
Behavioral Sciences
Physiological Color-Change
Sensitivity
Zoology
Male-Male Competition
Residency
Colour Change
Signalling
Science & Technology
Intersexual Selection
Size