In the world of fiddler crabs, displays of love involve drumming the ground with their oversized claws or hitting the […] ...

Learn more about the courtship songs of male fiddler crabs, which communicate important information about their size and their fitness as mates.

The male European fiddler crab attracts his mate by performing a courtship dance. New research published in the Journal of ...

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.

What are they? KWONG: How fiddler crabs drum their flirty mating songs into the sand. CHANG: Ooh. CARLSON: How to grow chicken nuggets in the lab. CHANG: OK. KWONG: And a drug like LSD without the ...

there are a number of semi-terrestrial crabs with eyes on eyestalks. Fiddler crabs, soldier crabs, and other ghost crab species have long, vertically oriented eyestalks that are set close together.

Fiddler crabs use vibrational signals in courtship, produced by drumming the ground with their claws or shells. Larger claws generate higher-energy signals, allowing females to assess male size ...

The male European fiddler crab attracts his mate by performing a courtship dance. New research published in the Journal of Experimental Biology... Into dudes who drum? You might be a female ...

For the first time, a study led by University of Oxford researchers has ‘listened in’ to the fascinating courtship displays of Fiddler crabs using geophones. The findings, published today in ...