Behavioural colour change in the hermit crab Pagurus bernhardus: Reduced crypticity when the threat of predation is high

Behaviour

Volumn 145, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 915-929

  Briffa, Mark ^a   Haskell, Peter ^a   Wilding, Catherine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Crypsis; Decision making; Hermit crab; Predation; Shell selection

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); GASTROPODA; PAGURUS BERNHARDUS;

EID: 67249140170     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853908784089261     Document Type: Article

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