Attractiveness of sand hoods built by courting male fiddler crabs, Uca musica: Test of a sensory trap hypothesis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 89-94

  Christy, John H ^a,b   Baum, Julia K ^a,c   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^a,d  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b Unit 0948   (United States)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CRAB; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA TAXON); DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; STENODACTYLUS; UCA; UCA MUSICA; UCA STENODACTYLUS;

EID: 0042813713     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/anbe.2003.2196     Document Type: Article

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