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Table 2 Helgesen et al., [42] parameter space

From: When honesty and cheating pay off: the evolution of honest and dishonest equilibria in a conventional signalling game

Parameter

Standard E85 model

Choice-of-state model

V

100

100

C SS

15

100, 200

C WW

15

15

C SW

15

75

C WS

50, 70

50, 75

F a

5

5

F p

5

5

F f

0, 5

0, 5

  1. Where V denotes the value of the contested resource, C WW and C SS denote the expected costs of a fight between two weak and two strong individuals respectively; C SW , and C WS is the expected cost for a strong animal fighting a weak and vice versa; and finally, F p denotes the cost of waiting if the opponent attacks unconditionally