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ArticleBehavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Collective self-assessment in banded mongoose intergroup contests.

C W Rayner, P A Green, K L Hunt, F J Thompson, F Mwanguhya, M A Cant, D W E Sankey

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Article in Behavioral ecology : official journal of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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7 authors.

C W RaynerCentre for Ecology and Conservation, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4437-5435
P A GreenDepartment of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2434-8795
K L HuntCentre for Ecology and Conservation, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, United Kingdom.
F J ThompsonCentre for Ecology and Conservation, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7581-2204
F MwanguhyaBanded Mongoose Research Project, Queen Elizabeth National Park, Kasese District, Rubirizi, Uganda.
M A CantCentre for Ecology and Conservation, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, United Kingdom.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1530-3077
D W E SankeyCentre for Ecology and Conservation, Faculty of Environment, Science and Economy, University of Exeter, Penryn Campus, Cornwall TR10 9FE, United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Contests over resources are widespread in nature. To optimize outcomes, animals assess fighting abilities, deciding to escalate conflicts based on their own strength (self-assessment) or comparing their own strength with that of their rival (mutual assessment). While most research focuses on one-on-one (dyadic) contests, the assessment strategies employed by groups remain poorly understood, even though animal groups from ants to humans engage in intergroup conflict. Mutual assessment is frequently assumed, as more information is thought to improve decision-making; however, this assumption has rarely been tested. Here we used a dataset spanning 21 years and 633 intergroup contests in a banded mongoose (

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