Behavioral evidence for intraspecific signaling with achromatic and polarized light by cuttlefish (Mollusca: Cephalopoda)

Behaviour

Volumn 141, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 837-861

  Boal, Jean G ^a   Shashar, Nadav ^b   Grable, Melissa M ^c   Vaughan, Katrina H ^d   Loew, Ellis R ^e   Hanlon, Roger T ^f  

^a MILLERSVILLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Science Eilat   (Israel)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY MARINE PROGRAM   (United States)

^d SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^f MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Audience effect; Invertebrate; Marine; Visual communication

Indexed keywords

EID: 4944243397     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539042265662     Document Type: Article

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