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Parent Record: Social monogamy in the fiddler crab Uca capricornis
Australian National University
Fiddler crabs are not generally considered subjects for the study of monogamy as they tend to live in dense mixed sex colonies with numerous neighbours and individually defended... -
Parent Record: Colouration and Colour Changes of the Fiddler Crab, Uca capricornis
Australian National University
The purpose of this investigation was to quantitatively describe the colour patterns of the fiddler crab Uca capricornis and their ability to change on a socially significant... -
Neighbour-stranger relations in the fiddler crab Uca capricornis
Australian National University
A unique relationship exists between neighbouring males and females in the fiddler crab Uca capricornis. This experiment was designed to demonstrate how a male fiddler crab... -
Natural male-female interactions and territoriality in the fiddler crab Uca...
Australian National University
The behaviour of U. capricornis is not well-known. Consequently, observations were made for approximately 1100 hours over 4 seasons to obtain a general picture of their social... -
Daily colour changes associated with the fiddler crab, Uca capricornis
Australian National University
The purpose of this experiment was to examine the daily colour changes in relation to the tidal cycle in the fiddler crab, Uca capricornis. Experiments were conducted in the... -
Colour changes associated with the semilunar cycle in the fiddler crab, Uca...
Australian National University
The purpose of the experiment was to examine the colour changes associated with the semilunar cycle in the fiddler crab, Uca capricornis. Experiments were conducted in the East... -
Colour changes associated with moulting in the fiddler crab, Uca capricornis
Australian National University
The purpose of the experiment was to quantitatively examine the colour changes associated with moulting in the fiddler crab, Uca capricornis. Experiments were conducted in the... -
Burrow tenure in the fiddler crab Uca capricornis
Australian National University
Crabs sometimes vacate their territories due to continued harassment by their neighbours. To determine whether male-female pairs were longer lasting than male-male pairs, we...