Evidence for mutual assessment in a wild primate (original) (raw)

“…In conclusion, if used in conjunction with existing approaches for the study of agonistic interactions, ternary plots can provide a way of achieving a greater level of granularity from contest data, particularly when MA is evident, by illustrating the relative contributions of information on self and opponent RHP, as well as that of RV. Although several studies have presented evidence for mutual assessment (Benítez, Pappano, Beehner, & Bergman, 2017;Tedore & Johnsen, 2015;Tibbetts, Mettler, & Levy, 2010), it is difficult to gauge the balance between the contributions of information on self and opponent RHP to the giving up decision. However, this information is likely to be present already in data sets that contain contest duration and the RHP of both opponents, and these data could be used to populate ternary plots.…”