Communication By Agonistic Displays: What Can Games Theory Contribute To Ethology ?

i. In this paper I examine the way in which predictions from a model based on games theory can help us understand ethological data about agonistic displays. 2. The War of Attrition is a model which explains how contests might be settled entirely by display. The model can be extended to deal with contests involving attack as well as display, assuming that the cost of attack is greater than the cost of display. It predicts that information about...