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    social dynamics of many biological taxa, extending far beyond sharks. Agonistic displays are ritualized sequences of actions, produced by animals belonging...
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    color that serves to distract the predator". Gaping is part of the shark agonistic display, and is also found in snakes such as the cottonmouth, and in birds...
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    pupping. The "hunch" threat display of the grey reef shark is the most pronounced and well-known agonistic display (a display directed toward competitors...
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    doi:10.1080/10236240601154872. Martin, R.A. Agonistic Display in Grey Reef Shark. ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research. Retrieved on February 12, 2009. Grove...
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    Reef Shark. ReefQuest Centre for Shark Research. Retrieved on February 14, 2009. Martin, R.A. (March 2007). "A review of shark agonistic displays: comparison...
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    bull shark, tiger shark, great white shark, mako sharks, thresher sharks, and hammerhead sharks. Sharks are caught by humans for shark meat or shark fin...
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    R. A. (March 2007). "A review of shark agonistic displays: comparison of display features and implications for shark-human interactions". Marine and Freshwater...
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    R.A. (March 2007). "A review of shark agonistic displays: comparison of display features and implications for shark–human interactions". Marine and Freshwater...
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    R.A. (March 2007). "A review of shark agonistic displays: comparison of display features and implications for shark-human interactions". Marine and Freshwater...
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    R.A. (March 2007). "A review of shark agonistic displays: comparison of display features and implications for shark–human interactions". Marine and Freshwater...
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    competing for food. If threatened or challenged, they may perform an agonistic display: the shark swims towards the threat and then turns away, while rolling from...
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    & Pratt, H.L. (Jr.) (2008). "Putative Male – Male Agonistic Behaviour in Free-Living Zebra Sharks, Stegostoma fasciatum". The Open Fish Science Journal...
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    A. (March 2007). "A review of shark agonistic displays: comparison of display features and implications for shark-human interactions". Marine and Freshwater...
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    is yet to be confirmed. Agonistic interactions: Male cuttlefish shows a zebra display when sighting a rival male- this display is a signal of fighting...
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    occasional agonistic interactions. Scale damaged has allowed for the observation that unpaired males are more likely to display agonistic behaviour towards...
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    patterns to signal future intent to other cuttlefish. For example, during agonistic encounters, male cuttlefish adopt a pattern called the intense zebra pattern...
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    Elaborate changes in body patterning take place in some species in both agonistic and courtship behaviour. The Caribbean reef squid (Sepioteuthis sepioidea)...
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    alarm) and agonistic behavior were not significantly different, which suggests distress sounds can be used to sample variation in agonistic sound production...
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    J. W.; McGuinness, K. A. & Christian, K. A. (2013). "Born to be bad: agonistic behaviour in hatchling saltwater crocodiles (Crocodylus porosus)". Behaviour...
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    "Territoriality in the green frog (Rana clamitans): Vocalizations and agonistic behaviour". Animal Behaviour. 26 (4): 1051–1054. doi:10.1016/0003-3472(78)90094-5...
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    to a large repertoire of visual as well as vocal displays in all penguin species. Agonistic displays are those intended to confront or drive off, or alternately...
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    1016/0006-3207(96)83230-7. JSTOR 3783240. Sabine, N.; Gardner, K. (1987). "Agonistic encounters between Bald Eagles and other raptors wintering in west central...
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    Fernández-Juricic and Marcelo H. Cassini (2007). "Intra-sexual female agonistic behaviour of the South American sea lion (Otaria flavescens) in two colonies...
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  • (Ornithischia: Pachycephalosauria) with comments on cranial display structures in agonistic behavior". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. 18 (2): 363–375...
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    to increase social status, gain reproductive benefits or use them for 'agonistic buffering', often with little concern for the welfare of the young. Two...
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    the eggs. In order to reduce this sort of competition, males develop agonistic behaviors like mate guarding and flushing. The Hapalochlaena lunulata...
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    mosasaur, making it one of the few specimens with unambiguous evidence of agonistic interactions amongst mosasaurs. A study on the morphology of the snout...
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    young. Encounters between males and males or females and females are agonistic, while an encounter between a male and female leads to courtship. Courtship...
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