A robot posing as a tough male crab recently challenged real crabs to a showdown during mating season — and the videos are hilarious. The robot, nicknamed "Wavy Dave," infiltrated fiddler crab (Afruca ...

If you've been plugged into internet culture at all in the last five years, you may remember the crustacean party that virally swept social media. Back in 2018, we collectively lost our minds at the ...

Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot version during mating season. In a paper published in the journal Proceedings ...

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 ...

Male fiddler crabs wave their oversized claw to attract mates. (Image credit: Joe Wilde) Claw waving is an important part of fiddler crab reproduction. If a male successfully attracts a female during ...