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fiddler crabs

Clawing Their Way to Victory

Brian Owens · April 13, 2016 ·

Research suggests fiddler crabs with regenerated claws have distinct fighting strategies. Male fiddler crabs have one oversized claw, which they use to both attract females and to fight other males for the best breeding burrows on the beach. These fights can get violent, and crabs will sometimes lose their big fighting claw in the process. […]

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