Cues that Spiders (Araneae: Araneidae, Tetragnathidae) Use to Build Orbs: Lapses in Attention to One Set of Cues because of Dissonance with Others?

Ethology

Volumn 118, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 610-620

  Eberhard, William G ^a,b   Hesselberg, Thomas ^a,c  

^a SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE COSTA RICA   (Costa Rica)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL CUE; MOVEMENT; SPACING; SPIDER; SPIDER WEB; STEREOTYPIC BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALIA; ARANEAE; ARANEIDAE; LEUCAUGE MARIANA; MICRATHENA; TETRAGNATHIDAE;

EID: 84862258468     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2012.02048.x     Document Type: Article

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