Male-biased predation of a fiddler crab

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 201-207

  Koga, Tsunenori ^a   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^b   Christy, John H ^b   Murai, Minoru ^c   Kasuya, Eiiti ^d  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^d KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; PREY PREFERENCE; SEX-RELATED DIFFERENCE;

AVES; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; QUISCALUS; QUISCALUS MEXICANUS; UCA; UCA BEEBEI;

EID: 0034859115     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1740     Document Type: Article

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