Predator avoidance in fiddler crabs: 1. Escape decisions in relation to the risk of predation

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 69, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 603-614

  Hemmi, Jan M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVOIDANCE REACTION; CRAB; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; PREDATION RISK; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA; UCA VOMERIS;

EID: 13844255433     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.06.018     Document Type: Article

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