A robot crab has helped scientists understand how male fiddler crabs compete over females. Male fiddler crabs have one oversized claw, and they attract females by standing outside their burrow and ...

Fiddler crabs are renowned for their elaborate courtship displays, which involve both visual and vibrational signals that play crucial roles in mate attraction and intraspecific communication. Males ...

Do fiddler crabs play the violin?! The name ‘Fiddler crab’ means ‘a crab that plays the violin.’ It gets its name because the way it waves its large claw up and down during its courtship dance looks ...

Fiddler crabs use their large claws to wave down females and didn’t take kindly to a robot newcomer in Portugal. Joe A. Wilde Like many people around the world, animal behavior researcher Joe Wilde ...

Estuaries and Coasts, Vol. 44, No. 5 (JULY 2021), pp. 1344-1362 (19 pages) Intertidal crabs display distinct morphological traits that allow differential interactions with biotic and abiotic features ...

The St. Johns River is a crabby kind of place, meaning that there are a number of crab species other than the popular and personal favorite, the blue crab, present in the river. Most of them are small ...

A study has 'listened in' to the fascinating courtship displays of Fiddler crabs using geophones. The findings provide new insights into how the animals communicate effectively on the noisy seashore.

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