Motivation matters: cheliped extension displays in the hermit crab, Pagurus bernhardus, are honest signals of hunger

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 75, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 2041-2047

  Laidre, Mark E ^a   Elwood, Robert W ^b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

conventional signals; food deprivation; hermit crab; Pagurus bernhardus; postural threat displays; reliable communication; starvation; subjective resource valuation

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; CRAB; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOOD; HONEST SIGNALING; HUNGER; SIGNALING; STARVATION;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PAGURUS BERNHARDUS;

EID: 44349187940     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2007.11.011     Document Type: Article

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