AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY, PATRICIA BACKWELL(See M. Peso et al., "Not what it looks like: mate-searching behaviour, mate preferences and clutch production in wandering and territory-holding female fiddler crabs," Royal Society Open Science, 2016.)
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Female banana fiddler crabs (Uca mjoebergi) sometimes hole up with males, not to find a mate, but for protection.
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