Data from: Playing to an audience: the social environment influences aggression and victory displays

Animal behaviour studies have begun to incorporate the influence of the
social environment, providing new opportunities for studying signal
strategies and evolution. We examined how the presence and sex of an
audience influenced aggression and victory display behaviour in
field-captured and lab-reared field crickets (Gryllus veletis). Audience
type, rearing environment, and their interaction were important predictors
in all model sets. Thus audience type may impose different costs and
benefits for competing males depending on whether they are socially
experienced or not. Our results suggest that field-captured winners, in
particular, dynamically adjust their contest behaviour to potentially gain
a reproductive benefit via female eavesdropping and may deter future
aggression from rivals by advertising their aggressiveness and victories.