Variability of a dynamic visual signal: The fiddler crab claw-waving display

Journal of Comparative Physiology A: Neuroethology, Sensory, Neural, and Behavioral Physiology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-67

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

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Claw wave; Dynamic visual signal; Fiddler crab; Sensory ecology; Signal variation

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRACHYURA; CLASSIFICATION; HISTOLOGY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VIDEORECORDING; VISION;

ANIMALS; BRACHYURA; MOVEMENT; NONLINEAR DYNAMICS; PHYLOGENY; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; VIDEO RECORDING; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 58649120292     PISSN: 03407594     EISSN: 14321351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00359-008-0382-7     Document Type: Article

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