Quantitative analysis of fiddler crab flock movement: Evidence for 'selfish herd' behaviour

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 735-741

  Viscido, Steven V ^a   Wethey, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; CRAB; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

CELUCA PUGILATOR; DECAPODA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA; UCA PUGILATOR;

EID: 0036057272     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2001.1935     Document Type: Article

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