Comparison shopping: Detectability and mate preferences in a fiddler crab

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 88, Issue , 2014, Pages 107-111

  Peso, M ^a,b   Telford, L ^a   Backwell, P R Y ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Comparative choice; Fiddler crab; Long distance attraction; Mate choice

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP; CRAB; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MATE CHOICE; MATING BEHAVIOR; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; SIGNAL;

OCYPODIDAE;

EID: 84898745372     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.11.021     Document Type: Article

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