Rival assessment and comparison of morphological and performance-based predictors of fighting ability in Lake Eyre dragon lizards, Ctenophorus maculosus

Claire A McLean; Devi Stuart-Fox

Journal article

Rival assessment and comparison of morphological and performance-based predictors of fighting ability in Lake Eyre dragon lizards, Ctenophorus maculosus

Claire A McLean, Devi Stuart-Fox

Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology | SPRINGER | Published : 2015

DOI: 10.1007/s00265-014-1863-z

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Funding Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Adnan Moussalli for assistance in the field and thank Rita Chan, Ashton Dickerson and Angela Schneider for help with animal husbandry, experimental tests and scoring video data. Bob Elwood and an anonymous reviewer provided valuable feedback on an earlier version of the manuscript. Funding was provided by the Australian Research Council (DP0772215) and The University of Melbourne (ECR 600065).