Sentence examples for territorial contest from inspiring English sources

The territorial contest is also over resources; studies in recent decades have suggested a possible wealth of oil beneath the waters surrounding the islands.

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).

Additionally, the dependency of competitive success on body size (Odreitz, 2012) suggests that in the field, territorial contests will result in a correlation between territory quality and male body size (Yanagisawa & Nishida, 1991).

Cichlid color pattern diversification is often linked to male male competition and female choice (Maan & Sefc, 2013), but the social system of Tropheus, with both male and female territoriality, also puts demands on female competitive abilities in territorial contests.

Instead, the small males are the ones who seem to win in territorial contests.

What is surprising, however, is what the researchers found when they observed territorial contests.

The horns grow during winter and are fully grown just before the territorial contests of the bucks in spring.

In this primitive condition males have long, sharp upper canines, called tusks, that are used for slashing and stabbing in territorial contests.

Additionally, Hoffmann and Cacoyianni have found that males selected for increased aggression had a net advantage in territorial contests; but as the ratio of territorial to non-territorial males increased, this advantage was reversed.

Moreover, we have previously observed that red males dominated over bluish males in staged territorial contests (H. Zimmermann, unpublished data).

Furthermore, males whose parents were raised at high (25°C) temperature were usually dominant in paired territorial contests over males whose parents were raised at low (18°C) temperature (Zamudio et al. 1995).