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Interspecific attractiveness of structures built by courting male fiddler crabs: experimental evidence of a sensory trap

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2003

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Christy, John H
Backwell, Patricia
Schober, Ursula

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Springer

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Male fiddler crabs Uca musica sometimes build sand hoods and male Uca beebei sometimes build mud pillars next to their burrows to which they attract females for mating. Mate-searching females preferentially approach these structures and subsequently mate

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Keywords: avoidance reaction; burrow; crab; mate location; orientation; predation risk; sexual selection; Crustacea; Decapoda (Crustacea); Ocypodidae; Stenodactylus; Uca Landmark orientation; Mate search risk; Predator avoidance; Sensory trap; Uca

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/91981

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Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology

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