Courtship herding in the fiddler crab Uca elegans: tracking control system

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 1259-1265

  How, Martin J ^a   Hemmi, Jan M ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

control system; courtship herding; fiddler crab; target tracking; Uca elegans

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CONTROL SYSTEM; COURTSHIP; CRAB; NEUROLOGY; VIDEOGRAPHY;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA;

EID: 51549093940     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.05.028     Document Type: Article

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