#fiddler crabs

[great-and-small]

This guy actually almost won my best dancer award but then he went and backhanded that bystander crab for no reason and we can’t let a crab with such character issues take this highest honor, you understand

[redrcs]

Keeping one eye on the weather.

Fiddler crabs at Teewah Beach

[stimciety]

Creepy Dave's "Best Favorite Animal : Fiddler Crabs" 🦀

[antiqueanimals]

The First Book of the Seashore. Written by Wyatt Blassingame. Illustrated by Fred Sweney. 1964.

Internet Archive

[rachelsrandomsphotos]

Fiddler Crab (Uca)

Taken at Turkey Creek Sanctuary in Palm Bay, FL

[the-descolada]

Getting to the time of year there’s friends out and about in the salt marsh again

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Fiddler crabs are ambidextrous! When a male loses his larger claw, the smaller claw grows to become the dominant limb. Meanwhile, a new claw grows in place of the old one, but it remains small until the larger claw is lost again.

(Image: A red-jointed fiddler crab (Minuca minax)  by Will Parson)

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[amazingpetenclosures]

fiddler crab enclosure by Adam Wolferman Sr.