Female preferences for timing in a fiddler crab with synchronous courtship waving displays

@article{Kahn2014FemalePF,
  title={Female preferences for timing in a fiddler crab with synchronous courtship waving displays},
  author={Andrew T. Kahn and Luke Holman and Patricia Ruth Yvonne Backwell},
  journal={Animal Behaviour},
  year={2014},
  volume={98},
  pages={35-39}
}
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