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Social networking aids housing search: hermit crabs
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Social networking behaviors in hermit crabs helps them find new homes using vacancy chains and other behaviors.
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- Rotjana RD; Chabot JR; Lewis SM. 2010. Social context of shell acquisition in Coenobita clypeatus hermit crabs. Behavioral Ecology. 21(3): 639-646.
- 2010. Social networking helps hermit crabs find homes. Tufts University News Releases [Internet],
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