Crabs

Ship noise hampers crab camouflage

Brendan Montague

| 11th March 2020

The stress caused by ship noise means that crabs don’t have as much energy to devote to crucial camouflage.
Crabs crack food maze

Claire Hayhurst

| 25th October 2019

Researchers at Swansea University tested 12 common shore crabs.

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