Aerobic capacity influences giving-up decisions in fighting hermit crabs: does stamina constrain contests?

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 735-740

  Mowles, Sophie L ^a   Cotton, Peter A ^a   Briffa, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

aerobic capacity; fight; haemocyanin; hermit crab; Pagurus bernhardus; signal; stamina

Indexed keywords

AGONISTIC BEHAVIOR; BIOENERGETICS; BODY SIZE; CRAB; DECISION MAKING; FIGHTING; METABOLISM; PIGMENT; SIGNALING;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); PAGURUS BERNHARDUS;

EID: 69249217706     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.07.003     Document Type: Article

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