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Nature 403, 613 (10 February 2000) | doi:10.1038/35001137
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Flight restores fight in crickets
Hans A. Hofmann1 & Paul A. Stevenson1
Abstract
Aggressiveness recovers much faster in male crickets forced to fly after a defeat.
It is not fully understood what makes animals aggressive, although ancient Chinese gamblers, betting fortunes on the outcome of cricket fights, seemed to know a trick or two1. Inspired by their age-old wisdom, we found that we could restore aggressiveness in defeated crickets simply by activating their motor programme for flying.
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