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Selfregulation of behaviour in animal societies

II. Games between two populations without selfinteraction

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A discussion of the game dynamics for asymmetric contest between two animal populations is presented by means of qualitative analysis.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Chemie und Strahlenchemie, Wien, Austria

    Peter Schuster, Karl Sigmund, Josef Hofbauer & Robert Wolff

  2. Institut für Mathematik der Universität Wien, Wien, Austria

    Peter Schuster, Karl Sigmund, Josef Hofbauer & Robert Wolff

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This work has been supported financially by the Austrian “Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung” Project Nr. 3502

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Schuster, P., Sigmund, K., Hofbauer, J. et al. Selfregulation of behaviour in animal societies. Biol. Cybernetics 40, 9–15 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00326676

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