Do I stand out or blend in? Conspicuousness awareness and consistent behavioural differences in hermit crabs

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• Publication year

  2011

• Venue

  Biology Letters

• Publication date

  2011-06-23

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0761PMID 20980296PMCID PMC3097842
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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