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Robot crab helps scientists uncover how male crabs compete for female mates
The male fiddler crabs use their one oversized claw to attract females, waving it with a frantic energy outside their burrows ...
Jennions and fellow ANU researchers Richard Milner and Patricia Backwell studied the behavior of fiddler crabs living in mud flats off the African country of Mozambique in October and November ...
Male banana fiddler crabs take courting to a new, and pushy, level: The little Australian crab males wait for females to enter their burrows and then trap them in order to mate, scientists have ...
The sighting, he thought, was very strange. Fiddler crabs weren’t supposed to be north of Cape Cod, let alone Boston. The year was 2012, and a marine heatwave had just occurred.
Male fiddler crabs are lopsided, with one claw that seems about the right size and one very large claw. As you might expect, one function of the larger claw is to attract females.
Besides being entertaining to watch, fiddler crabs are an important component in our ecosystem. According to Zeil, Hemmi, and Backwell in Current Biology Volume 16, Number 2, these are the most ...
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