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Shells as ‘extended architecture’: to escape isolation, social hermit crabs choose shells with the right external architecture

Animals’ cognitive abilities can be tested by allowing them to choose between alternatives, with only one alternative offering the correct solution to a novel problem. Hermit crabs are evolutionarily specialized to navigate while carrying a shell, with alternative shells representing different forms...

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Autores principales: Krieger, Jakob, Hörnig, Marie K., Laidre, Mark E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7700067/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32770436
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10071-020-01419-7