Claw waving display changes with receiver distance in fiddler crabs, Uca perplexa

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1015-1022

  How, Martin J ^a   Hemmi, Jan M ^a   Zeil, Jochen ^a   Peters, Richard ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

claw waving display; communication distance; fiddler crab; movement based signals; Uca perplexa

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; CRAB; DISPLAY BEHAVIOR; MOVEMENT; REPRODUCTIVE COST; SIGNAL; VISUAL CUE;

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

EID: 39449083849     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.09.004     Document Type: Article

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