Sentences with phrase «fiddler crabs»

What the male fiddler crabs lack in body size, he more than makes up for in claws.

Scientists in Australia use robotic crab claws to explore the attributes female fiddler crabs look for in a mate.

Plus, larger fiddler crabs get the females, he adds.

Fiddler crabs live in burrows and often fight to protect them from would - be squatters.

AFRICAN fiddler crabs will put their claws on the line to help defend their neighbours from an intruder — but only because it suits them.

Defence coalitions ought to be common in the wild, says Michael Jennions of the Australian National University in Canberra, but in practice they have only been seen in two fiddler crab species, and European rock pipits.

Through personal stories, historical narrative and detailed sketches, biologist Emlen charts the evolution of animal weapons so bizarre and gargantuan, it's amazing they even exist — like the towering antlers on an elk or the enormous claws on fiddler crabs.

When approached by a potential mate, the male fiddler crab begins to wave its large claw up and down.

Clapper rails in particular are highly dependent on the marshes — including fiddler crabs, a dietary staple — and they'll have nowhere to go if the oil arrives.

Another study involving Professor Marshall, published in the same edition of Current Biology, showed that linear polarised light is used as a form of communication by fiddler crabs.

I meandered down the sidewalk daydreaming about the long glorious summer ahead of me — going to the beach, swimming to the raft, catching fiddler crabs at the end of the dock and running around barefoot until the soles of my feet looked and felt like leather.

Also, you may want to avoid small fiddler crabs, in the genus Uca, since they require special intertidal habitats to survive.

This tour focuses on learning more about the diverse ecosystems of northeast Florida, taking guests into some of the less - explored areas of the salt marsh and marsh island hammocks, where they'll see fiddler crabs, oysters, sea grasses, marine worms, shells, jellyfish, birds, plants and reptiles.

Each ribbon of pond provides a wee little marine world replete with fiddler crabs, minnows and other schooling fish, in addition to sea snails and the occasional horseshoe crabs.

On April 2, Frank Grasso, director of the Biomemetic and Cognitive Robotics Lab at Brooklyn College, showed me around his lab spaces — from where they build mobile robots to where they keep their axolotls and fiddler crabs to the crown jewel: -LSB-...]

Fiddler crabs (Uca stenodactylus) live on mudflats, a very reflective environment, and they behave differently depending on the amount of polarisation reflected by objects, the researchers found.

«It appears that fiddler crabs have evolved inbuilt sunglasses, in the same way as we use polarising sunglasses to reduce glare,» Professor Marshall said.

There are many other organisms — including starfish, sea cucumbers, and fiddler crabs — that may be similarly affected by the tiny bits of plastic.

In 2014 he published his findings on the rapid expansion of the fiddler crab, Uca pugnax, into the gulf.

Mangrove safaris will bring you up close with eagles, monitor lizards, monkeys, walking fish, fiddler crabs, bats, vipers and otters.

The banks are lined with gaping mud holes of the Blue Land Crab, a meaty delicacy much bigger than the Fiddler Crabs nervously scavenging the mud for food.

The Fiddler Crab is an item in Chrono Cross.

Scientists studying a spill off Cape Cod in 1969 are finding that 40 years later, fiddler crabs are still sluggish from the narcotic effects of oil.

They wondered if it was the same as the fiddler crabs we saw at Chek Jawa.

we love the smell of the tidal creek and all the birds, dolphins and fiddler crabs that live there we're so glad you had such a nice visit!