UNDERWATER ORIENTATION IN THE SAND FIDDLER CRAB,UCA PUGILATOR

Autor:	Harrison W. Ambrose, Donald Y. Young
Rok vydání:	1978
Předmět:	Shore geography geography.geographical_feature_category biology Hydrostatic pressure biology.organism_classification Burrow Fiddler crab Predation Uca pugilator Fishery Light intensity Underwater General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Zdroj:	The Biological Bulletin. 155:246-258
ISSN:	1939-8697 0006-3185
DOI:	10.2307/1540879
Popis:	The semi-terrestrial sand fiddler crab, Uca pugilator, occasionally is forced by avian and mammalian predators to go into the water where it becomes vulnerable to aquatic predators. Therefore, it would be adaptive for Uca to possess some means of detecting the direction of the shore and its burrow while submerged. Using crabs from Florida and Long Island, New York, the identity of the cues used in underwater orientation and the possible hierarchial arrangement of these cues were ascertained.Under various cue regimes, the crabs were individually observed in a long narrow tank that allowed the crabs to proceed either toward shore or away from it. The potential cues for shoreward orientation which were available to the submerged crab were celestial cues, landmarks, and gradient cues (hydrostatic pressure, light wavelength, light intensity and substrate slope). Each cue was isolated and then tested for its effectiveness in orientation. It was next presented to the crabs in a conflicting configuration with oth...
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