Shore crabs are able to transfer learned handling skills to novel prey

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 711-714

  Hughes, R N ^a   O'brien, N ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRAB; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HANDLING TIME; LEARNING;

BIVALVIA; CARCINUS MAENAS; CATHARANTHUS ROSEUS; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; GRAPSIDAE; LITTORINA LITTOREA; MYTILUS EDULIS; NUCELLA LAPILLUS;

EID: 0034970959     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1640     Document Type: Article

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