Fumio Takeshita (@fum10.bsky.social)

Our paper is out from Animal Behaviour! Fiddler crabs can discriminate between neighbor unfamiliar individuals and familiar ones in the territorial fighting. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Dear enemy phenomenon in fiddler crabs: escalation of fights with unfamiliar individuals rather than familiar neighbours In territorial animals, fights against strangers are often more aggressive than those against neighbours. This is called the ‘dear enemy’ phenomenon a… https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347226000072