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The importance of animal weapons and fighting style in animal contests
A. V. Palaoro, P. E. C. Peixoto
This paper conducts a meta-analysis of 1,138 studies to assess how animal weapons are measured, used, and influence contest outcomes, finding biases in measurement and significant effects of fighting style on weapon importance.
DOI 10.1101/2020.08.26.268185