Functions of mudbailing behaviour in the European fiddler crab Uca tangeri

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1299-1309

  Oliveira, Rui F ^a   McGregor, Peter K ^c   Burford, Fiona R L ^a,b   Custódio, Maria R ^a   Latruffe, Claire ^b  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR DE PSICOLOGIA APLICADA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; FIDDLER CRAB; MUDBALL;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA; UCA TANGERI;

EID: 0032077273     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.1997.0685     Document Type: Article

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