Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>Love songs in the sand: Researchers listen in to fiddler <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/crab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crab</span></a> courtship <a href="https://phys.org/news/2025-04-songs-sand-fiddler-crab-courtship.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">phys.org/news/2025-04-songs-sa</span><span class="invisible">nd-fiddler-crab-courtship.html</span></a></p><p>Constraints on percussive seismic signals in a noisy environment by European <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/FiddlerCrabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FiddlerCrabs</span></a>, Afruca tangeri <a href="https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/7/jeb249323/367607/Constraints-on-percussive-seismic-signals-in-a" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">journals.biologists.com/jeb/ar</span><span class="invisible">ticle/228/7/jeb249323/367607/Constraints-on-percussive-seismic-signals-in-a</span></a></p><p>"For fiddler <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/crabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crabs</span></a>, vibrational signals are a crucial part of their courtship routines... males with larger claws produced higher-energy seismic signals, with higher amplitude drumming spikes. This appears to prevent the male from being dishonest about their size"</p>