Honest and dishonest displays, motivational state and subsequent decisions in hermit crab shell fights

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 72, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 853-859

  Elwood, R W ^a   Pothanikat, R M E ^a   Briffa, M ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CRAB; FIGHTING; SHELL;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PAGURUS BERNHARDUS;

EID: 33748586515     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2006.01.025     Document Type: Article

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