A waiting game between the black bellied plover and its fiddler crab prey

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 67, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 823-831

  Hugie, Don M ^a,b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; AVOIDANCE REACTION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCE;

CICONIIFORMES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; PLUVIALIS; PLUVIALIS SQUATAROLA; UCA; UCA PRINCEPS;

EID: 2442430344     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2003.03.023     Document Type: Article

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