Researchers test fiddler crab mating strategies by introducing a robot with a waving claw, dubbed “Wavy Dave.” CNN speaks to ...

Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot ...

Male fiddler crabs have one oversized claw, which they use to attract females by standing outside their burrow and waving.

Researchers have built a robot crab that can compete in claw-waving displays with real fiddler crabs, but "Wavy Dave" doesn't ...

In the new study, a robot crab—nicknamed Wavy Dave—waved its claw on a mudflat teeming with male fiddler crabs. The paper, ...

Between May and July 2022, Wilde and his team created “Wavy Dave,” an artificial fiddler crab with a robotic claw that could wave back and forth. It was placed in the Ria Formosa Natural Park in the ...

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 ...

The fiddler crab has one small claw and one big ol' one. Why? All the better to woo the lady crabs and throw down with the dude crabs. And this big crab's like, No, check yourself. And this other ...

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 ...

“Fiddler crabs north of Cape Cod had fewer parasite species overall and fewer parasites per crab than fiddler crabs south of Cape Cod,” adds Johnson. They note their findings were unexpected as bird ...

Fiddler crabs live on tidal mudflats and lock themselves away in air-filled sealed burrows when the tide comes in, says team member Rachel Slatyer, a behavioural ecology student, who carried out ...