I had the joy of observing one of my personal favorite invertebrate species today. The fiddler crab is an interesting crab species that is known for it’s oversized claw. Only the males have the large claw and use it to impress female crabs by waving. In order to avoid scaring the crabs, I sat and stayed still to watch them eat and continue building their burrows. When they were assured that I was no threat, some males began waving to impress some of the females in the group but many focused on eating and wouldn’t have
any mating shenanigans.
This is a female: