Spiny lobsters stick and slip to make sound: These crustaceans can scare off predators even when their usual armour turns soft

Nature

Volumn 411, Issue 6834, 2001, Pages 153-154

  Patek, Sheila N ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; DEFENSE MECHANISM; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; FRICTION; LOBSTER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND; SURFACE PROPERTY;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; FOOD CHAIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEPHROPIDAE; SOUND;

CRUSTACEA; LOBSTER; PALINURIDAE; SPINY;

EID: 0035837336     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35075656     Document Type: Article

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