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Visual ecology and mate competition studies



A male Uca flammula (the flame fiddler crab) waving his large claw to attract a female for mating. Fiddler crabs are a model species for the study of visual ecology and mate competition strategies in the Division of Ecology, Evolution and Genetics.
(Image and caption: Pat Backwell).

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