Some animals use communication signals to assess their opponent's size and fighting ability during aggressive conflicts …

. Benefits of recruitment were strongly dependent on resource patch quality, density, and variability. Communication was …

), for example, successful foragers use excited motor displays and a pheromone as communication signals. In addition, bees …

in adults and spotted pelage in young act as camouflage, side bands and dark faces assist in communication, and dark …, dark tails, and white tails did not appear to assist in communication alone, legs and tails that were either dark or white … (i.e., conspicuous) did seem to be linked with communication. There was moderate support for hypotheses that …