期刊
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
卷 95, 期 3, 页码 457-463出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2008.07.013
关键词
Mirror-elicited aggression; Agonistic behavior; Challenge hypothesis; Androgen responsiveness; Winning; Audience; Non-invasive method; Feces; GnRH; Testosterone metabolites
资金
- Austrian FWF [R30-1303]
Testosterone regulates the expression of sexual and aggressive behavior in male vertebrates and treatments with testosterone may promote territorial aggression and winning in dyadic contests. Conversely, individual testosterone levels respond to sexual or aggressive interactions and the social environment. Post-conflict testosterone in winner males though appears to be more complex than simply reflecting conflict outcome. Expression and degree of post-conflict testosterone responses may adapt to additional modulators such as repeated winning experience, audience presence, opponent's fighting ability, and self-assessment. We present simulated intrusion experiments with male Japanese quail using mirror-elicited aggression and fights with real opponents ('direct challenge'). We recorded agonistic behavior and measured immunoreactive testosterone metabolites (TM) non-invasively from individual droppings. Frequencies of initiated agonistic behavior were similar whether towards the mirror or in direct challenge tests, although some of the males were behaviorally non-responsive to the mirror ('mirror submissives'). However, there was no TM response to the mirror test in both, mirror fighters and mirror submissives, thus independently of behavioral output. After direct challenges TM levels were elevated in all males (focal males winning or conflict unresolved after 30 min), hence independently of conflict outcome. Thus, in male quail a combination of physical stimuli and the individual perception of own and opponent's fighting ability explained the expression of post-conflict TM responses rather than behavioral performance, conflict outcome, or any of these factors alone. in sum, our results emphasize that the degree of androgen responsiveness to agonistic behavior is fine-tuned by components related with social context and environment. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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