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‘Wavy Dave’ is a beefy-armed robot crab on a mating mission
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 Proceedings of the Royal Society B are helping solve these ecological mysteries, the data was only obtained at considerable peril to ‘Wavy Dave.’
Anyone who ever met Wavy Dave and lived to tell the tale—which is, in point of fact, everyone who has ever met Wavy Dave—would tell you about his claw. It was big, that’s for certain, but this was not ...
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Robot crab helps scientists uncover how male crabs compete for female matesThe male fiddler crabs use their one oversized claw to attract females, waving it with a frantic energy outside their burrows ...
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