Vibratory communication in a wandering spider, Cupiennius getazi: Female and male preferences for features of the conspecific male's releaser

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 1994, Pages 1155-1171

  Schmitt, Alain ^a   Schuster, Martin ^a   Barth, Friedrich G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; COURTSHIP; VIBRATORY SIGNAL; WANDERING SPIDER;

CUPIENNIUS GETAZI;

EID: 0028163415     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1994.1348     Document Type: Article

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