High stimulus specificity characterizes anti-predator habituation under natural conditions

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 276, Issue 1677, 2009, Pages 4381-4388

  Hemmi, Jan M ^a,b   Merkle, Tobias ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fiddler crabs; Habituation; Learning; Predation; Predator avoidance; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANTIPREDATOR DEFENSE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; CRAB; HABITUATION;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CRAB; HABITUATION; NONHUMAN; PREDATION; PREDATOR; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PREDATOR STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALIA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA VOMERIS;

EID: 72749123361     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2009.1452     Document Type: Article

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