True Facts: Incredible Crab Stories

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Please help Dr Camprasse’s research by logging sightings or helping to classify images from Spider Crab Cams at the links here:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/spidercrabwatch/spider-crab-watch
https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/spider-crab-watch

Thanks to:
Dr Elodie Camprasse, Deakin University
Dr Jason Spadaro, Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium
Dr Tanya Detto, Christmas Island National Park
Dr Rise Ohashi, Dept. of Biosphere-Geosphere Science, Okayama
Dr Mark E. Laidre, Dartmouth College
Dr Patricia Backwell, Australian National University

Chris Bray, https://www.youtube.com/@ChrisbrayNet1
Anna & Ned DeLoach, https://www.youtube.com/@blennywatcher
charlesleflamand, https://www.youtube.com/@charlesleflamand
Dr Adrian Smith, https://www.youtube.com/@AntLab
CINP
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance
Mystic Aquarium, https://www.youtube.com/@MysticAquarium1
Anchorage Museum, https://www.youtube.com/@AnchorageMuseum
SCDNR, https://www.dnr.sc.gov/
NRDC.org
Jono Freedrix, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAGJ1i1jZ1E
Ninad Bhosale, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkb43sNh7Q
Kelvin Perrie
NOAA
Ark Media

Citations

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Harada K, Hayashi N, Kagaya K. Individual behavioral type captured by a Bayesian model comparison of cap making by sponge crabs. PeerJ. 2020 May 14;8:e9036. doi: 10.7717/peerj.9036.

Inoue, Tadanobu, Shin-ichiro Oka, Toru Hara, Three-dimensional microstructure of robust claw of coconut crab, one of the largest terrestrial crustaceans, Materials & Design, Volume 206, 2021, 109765, ISSN 0264-1275, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2021.109765.

Inoue T, Oka S-i, Nakazato K, Hara T. Columnar Structure of Claw Denticles in the Coconut Crab, Birgus latro. Minerals. 2022; 12(2):274. https://doi.org/10.3390/min12020274

Krieger J, Drew MM, Hansson BS, Harzsch S. Notes on the Foraging Strategies of the Giant Robber Crab Birgus latro (Anomala) on Christmas Island: Evidence for Active Predation on Red Crabs Gecarcoidea natalis (Brachyura). Zool Stud. 2016 Apr 6;55:e6. doi: 10.6620/ZS.2016.55-06.

Laidre ME. Architectural modification of shells by terrestrial hermit crabs alters social dynamics in later generations. Ecology. 2019 Sep;100(9):e02767. doi: 10.1002/ecy.2767.

Laidre ME. Private parts for private property: evolution of penis size with more valuable, easily stolen shells. R Soc Open Sci. 2019 Jan 16;6(1):181760. doi: 10.1098/rsos.181760.

Laidre, M. & Hayssen, Virginia. (2012). Homes for hermits: Temporal, spatial and structural dynamics as transportable homes are incorporated into a population. Journal of Zoology. 288. 10.1111/j.1469-7998.2012.00921.x.

Lee, CC., Chiu, MC., Shih, CH. et al. The role of anthropogenic disturbance and invasion of yellow crazy ant in a recent decline of land crab population. Sci Rep 11, 12234 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-91732-z

Lemaitre R, Rahayu DL, Komai T. A revision of “blanket-hermit crabs” of the genus Paguropsis Henderson, 1888, with the description of a new genus and five new species (Crustacea, Anomura, Diogenidae). Zookeys. 2018 Apr 23;(752):17-97. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.752.23712.

Ohashi, Rise and Naoki Kamezaki. Peculiar Molting Behavior of Large Hermit Crabs. Pacific Science, 76(2):197-200 (2022). https://doi.org/10.2984/76.2.7

Schnytzer, Yisrael & Achituv, Yair & Fiedler, G. Curt & Karplus, Ilan. (2022). THE INTIMATE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN BOXER CRABS AND SEA ANEMONES: WHAT IS KNOWN AND WHAT IS NOT. Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review, Vol. 60. 495-532. DOI: 10.1201/9781003288602-10

Yamaguchi, Takao & Honda, Hiroshi & Aratake, Hisamichi & Henmi, Yasuhisa. (2006). Decorating behavior of the majid crab Hyastenus diacanthus. Crustacean Research. 35. 79-91. 10.18353/crustacea.35.0_79.

Written by Ze Frank