Hiding behaviour in fiddler crabs: how long should prey hide in response to a potential predator?

By Michael D. Jennions, P. Backwell, M. Murai, J. Christy. 2003

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Subfields: Ecology, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics

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In Ecology

1. Jan M. Hemmi
2. L. Reaney
3. P. Backwell

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2. R. Kortet
3. Jan M. Hemmi
4. L. Reaney
5. P. Backwell
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Citations in the corpus

• Predator avoidance in fiddler crabs: 1. Escape decisions in relation to the risk of predation (2005, background): “The time that resident crabs remain in their burrow after a simulated attack depends on the distance of large and close objects (Jennions et al. 2003).”
• Predator avoidance in fiddler crabs: 2. The visual cues (2005, background): “The crabs have to decide when to resurface without further information on the predator’s location and therefore run the risk of encountering a new or a waiting predator, a risky and costly waiting game (Hugie 2003, 2004; Jennions et al. 2003).”
• A behavioural syndrome in the field cricket Gryllus integer: intrasexual aggression is correlated with activity in a novel environment (2007, background): “Similar hiding behaviour occurs in many taxa and it is generally recognized as an antipredator tactic (Dill & Fraser, 1997; Hugie, 2003; Jennions et al., 2003; Hugie, 2004).”
• Risk-taking behavior predicts aggression and mating success in a fiddler crab (2007, background): “The time spent underground is costly in terms of missed foraging, courting, and mating opportunities (Backwell et al. 1998; Jennions et al. 2003; Reaney forthcoming), but rapid reemergence is risky because the threat may not have passed.”
• Hiding behaviour in two cricket populations that differ in predation pressure (2006, background): “We judge this to be unlikely, because similar hiding behaviour occurs in many taxa where it is generally recognized as an antipredator tactic (Dill & Fraser 1997; Hugie 2003, 2004; Jennions et al. 2003), and because males in our trials did not treat the vial as a defendable resource (e.”