More than anyone, Neil Waters appreciates the Camel Cup for what it really is: a light-hearted camel race in the middle of the Australian outback; a pissing contest between mates; and, first and foremost, a chance to celebrate the wild nature of these animals that he holds so close to his heart.
This trait is correlated with male performance in male-male contests over mates, since males with wider heads have more muscle mass in the head and a higher associated bite force [[ 54, 108- 110] on Podarcis).
Frankino and Brakefield then set up a mating contest between the modified males and normal males to see what would happen when natural selection was allowed to govern reproduction.
As we have argued above, the reason for this may be that in species with low oestrus synchrony, high mating skew, monopolized mating and contest competition for dominance, there may be increased advantages to females of signalling ovulation relatively more reliably, and of placing an increased emphasis on biasing paternity towards the dominant.
Race two was settled in a fine contest between Yamaha team-mates Laverty and Melandri, but not before Biaggi was penalised for cutting a chicane.
Wiggins and his team-mates will contest the team pursuit later this weekon Friday and their female counterparts begin the defence of their Olympic title on Thursday.
Yet this was always going to be the Bolt show, even if that soubriquet seems unjust in a contest where his team-mates Jason Livermore, Kemar Bailey-Cole and Nickel Ashmeade played an equal part.
The Journal cautioned that those who mastered the new technology might "outperform others in the everyday contest for jobs and mates, in science, on the athletic field and in armed conflict".
Competition for mates can occur through a variety of direct contests, or indirectly through passively or actively attracting members of the opposite sex.
While there was no overall relationship between territorial success and mating success, for particular male lines winning the territorial contest was a predictor of mating success (Table 3).
