Mesterton-Gibbons, Mike; Sherratt, Tom N. - In: Behavioral Ecology 17 (2006) 4, pp. 597-605
Two rationales have been proposed verbally for the function of victory displays, which are performed by the winners of contests but not by the losers. The "advertising" rationale is that victory displays are attempts to communicate victory to other members of a social group that do not pay...