The battle of the sexes? Territory acquisition and defence in male and female fiddler crabs

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 735-738

  Milner, R N C ^a   Booksmythe, I ^a   Jennions, M D ^a   Backwell, P R Y ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

fiddler crab; sexual dimorphism; territoriality; territory defence; Uca annulipes

Indexed keywords

BURROW; CRAB; FEMALE; SEXUAL DIMORPHISM; SITE SELECTION; TERRITORIALITY;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); OCYPODIDAE; UCA ANNULIPES;

EID: 76649109567     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.12.030     Document Type: Article

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