The male fiddler crabs use their one oversized claw to attract females, waving it with a frantic energy outside their burrows ...

Researchers have built a robot crab that can compete in claw-waving displays with real fiddler crabs, but "Wavy Dave" doesn't ...

Scientists apparently underestimated the aggression of itty-bitty male fiddler crabs when they deployed a friendly robot ...

In the new study, a robot crab—nicknamed Wavy Dave—waved its claw on a mudflat teeming with male fiddler crabs. The paper, ...

A robot crab has helped scientists understand how male fiddler crabs compete over females.Male fiddler crabs have one ...

A robot crab has helped scientists understand how male fiddler crabs compete over females.Male fiddler crabs have one oversized claw, and they attract ...

A robot crab has helped scientists understand how male fiddler crabs compete over females. Male fiddler crabs have one oversized claw, and they attract females by standing outside their burrow and ...

Male fiddler crabs have one oversized claw, which they use to attract females by standing outside their burrow and waving.

A tiny robot fiddler crab is helping environmental scientists better understand the complexities of animal mating rituals and rivalries. And while their initial findings published August 5 in ...

Between May and July 2022, Wilde and his team created “Wavy Dave,” an artificial fiddler crab with a robotic claw that could wave back and forth. It was placed in the Ria Formosa Natural Park in the ...

The robot fiddler crab was placed in an area where real male crabs could see and interact with the robot.

Using a 3D robotic crab, researchers found male fiddler crabs adjust their courtship signals based on the size and behavior of nearby rivals.