Beautiful swimmers attack at low tide - PubMed (original) (raw)
. 2022 Oct;103(10):e3787.
doi: 10.1002/ecy.3787. Epub 2022 Aug 1.
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- DOI: 10.1002/ecy.3787
Beautiful swimmers attack at low tide
David S Johnson. Ecology. 2022 Oct.
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Keywords: Callinectes sapidus; Sesarma reticulatum; Uca pugnax; ambush predator; blue crabs; fiddler crabs; sit-and-wait.
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FIGURE 1
A blue crab with a recently caught fiddler crab.
FIGURE 2
The major claw of a male fiddler crab lays next to the pit of a blue crab, which waits inside.
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