Social mates dynamically coordinate aggressive behavior to produce strategic territorial defense
Fig 2
Behavioral correlations of population level paired response to an average threat simulated intruder.
Population-wide correlations between defense behaviors performed during the 10-min defense bout in response to an average threat simulated intruder. A) Ranked behavior counts for an exemplar negative correlation. In this population and context, female flyovers and pik calls are generally not performed together in defense (rho = −0.43, p < 0.001). B) Ranked behavior counts for an exemplar positive correlation. In this population and context, female pik calls and male crest raises are generally performed together during a 10-min defense bout (rho = 0.57, p < 0.001). C) All colored squares indicate significant behavior correlations, where dotted green is a positive correlation and dotted red is a negative correlation. For exact correlation coefficients and p-values see supplement (S1 Table). Starred (*) boxes indicate a behavior pair correlation that is sometimes positive and sometimes negative, depending on the threat context (see Fig 4 for other contexts). Grey hatched squares represent non-significant correlations. Strikethrough behavior names indicate that behavior was not performed in response to an average simulated intruder. The orange box encompasses correlations that include behaviors performed by both the female and male resident.