Table 4.

Measures of contest costs for contests between males (MM), between males and females (MF) and between females (FF)

	MM	MF	FF	p-value
Contest duration (s)	349 ± 18.3a	264 ± 11.9b	258 ± 19.1ab	0.01
Δ Lactate (mmol/L)	5.57 ± 0.359a	3.82 ± 0.234b	4.29 ± 0.375ab	0.01
Δ Glucose (mmol/L)	1.21 ± 0.023a	1.15 ± 0.015a	1.15 ± 0.024a	0.16
Skin lesions front (n)	35 ± 2.5a	18 ± 1.6b	21 ± 2.6b	0.002
Skin lesions total (n)	58 ± 4.2a	31 ± 2.7b	33 ± 4.4b	0.002

^a,bValues lacking a common superscript letter differ by p < 0.05 in post-hoc test with Bonferroni correction for multiple testing