No preference for exaggerated courtship signals in a sensory trap

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 71, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1239-1246

  Christy, John H ^a   Backwell, Patricia R Y ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BURROW; COURTSHIP; CRAB; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MATING BEHAVIOR; SENSORY SYSTEM;

AVES; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 33646257320     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2005.11.008     Document Type: Article

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