Hermit crabs hide into shells when confronted with potential dangers, including images presented on a monitor. We do not know, however, what hermit crabs can see and how they perceive different objects. We examined the hiding response of the Caribbean hermit crab (Coenobita clypeatus) to various stimuli presented on a monitor in seven experiments to explore whether crabs could discriminate diff...

classification of heart arrhythmia is an important step in developing devices for monitoring the health of individuals. this paper proposes a three module system for classification of electrocardiogram (ecg) beats. these modules are: denoising module, feature extraction module and a classification module. in the first module the stationary wavelet transform (swf) is used for noise reduction of ...

In southern Atlantic studies on hermit crab biology are scanty considering the local biodiversity. In this way, some population features of Paguristes calliopsis Forest and Saint Laurent, 1968 such as size frequency distribution, sex ratio and shell occupation in the natural environment were studied. Specimens were collected by means of scuba methods in the infralittoral area of the Anchieta Is...

Most hermit crabs depend on empty gastropod shells for shelter; competition for appropriate shells is often severe. This study determined whether shells that have been drilled by naticid gastropods are suitable for occupancy by the hermit crab Pagurus longicarpus. Differences in the characteristics of empty shells and those occupied by hermit crabs were assessed at two adjacent field sites in N...

Recently, a general class of the Hermit--Hadamard-Fejer inequality on convex functions is studied in [H. Budak, March 2019, 74:29, textit{Results in Mathematics}]. In this paper, we establish a generalization of Hermit--Hadamard--Fejer inequality for fractional integral based on co-ordinated convex functions.Our results generalize and improve several inequalities obtained in earlier studies.

Both the need for shelter and the need for food can be motivations that alter animal behaviour. We tested the hypothesis that the hermit crab, Pagurus samuelis, deprived of food, shells, or both will respond differently from control hermit crabs when presented with food and shells concurrently. We measured the number of contacts made with both food and shells, and time elapsed until hermit crab...

Most hermit crabs have a specialized lifestyle that requires them to occupy gastropod shells. The size of shells that hermit crabs inhabit relative to their body size affects their growth, survival and fecundity. In this study, the effects of shell fit on individual growth rate, risk of predation, feeding rate, and activity level were examined in the laboratory for hermit crabs Pagurus longicar...

The suspension-feeding slippersnail Crepidula convexa is commonly associated with hermit crabs (Pagurus longicarpus) living in periwinkle shells (Littorina littorea) at our study site in Nahant, MA, USA. In 15 field surveys conducted at Nahant in 2000, 2001 and 2003, we found that (1) more than 61.8% of individuals of C. convexa resided on shells occupied by hermit crabs, as opposed to the shel...

ALTHOUGH the physiological and mechanical phenomena of the vasa deferentia resulting in the elaboration of the spermatophores of marine hermit crabs (Pagurida) have been investigated (Mouchet, 1931; Matthews, 1953), these phenomena in terrestrial hermit crabs (Coenobita and Birgus) have been neglected. Spermatophores of marine hermits are made with precision; the so-called immutable form of the...

Accepted: May 25, 2011; Published: August 30, 2011 Abstract The adsorption and transformation of K2Cr2O7 at natural hermit crab shell powder was studied by UV-visible spectrophotometry. K2Cr2O7 is adsorbed at natural hermit crab shell powder, and follows the Freundlich adsorption model with the adsorption constant of KF=888.8 and adsorption free energy change of 16.83 kJ.mol . The adsorbed K2Cr...