Fighting in fiddler crabs Uca mjoebergi: What determines duration?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 653-662

  Morrell, Lesley J ^a,c   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^b   Metcalfe, Neil B ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CONTEST COMPETITION; CRAB; FIGHTING;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 33644546032     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2004.11.014     Document Type: Article

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