ArticleCurrent zoology2019
Synchronous waving in fiddler crabs: a review.
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- Tracking Tool for Fiddler Crabs in Natural Settings to Promote a Model Organism for Synchrony.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Modeling the Evolution of Collective Synchrony.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2026Article
- Synchronous waving in a dotillid crab Ilyoplax pusilla: behavioral analyses using a robotic model.Journal of comparative physiology. A, Neuroethology, sensory, neural, and behavioral physiology · 2026Article
- Allied male dolphins use synchronous displays to strengthen social bonds in a cooperative context.Movement ecology · 2025Article
- Emergent collective behavior evolves more rapidly than individual behavior among acorn ant species.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- Collective synchrony of mating signals modulated by ecological cues and social signals in bioluminescent sea fireflies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Systematics and Biogeography of Fiddler Crabs -A Special Issue inZoological studies · 2022Article
- Imperfect synchrony in animal displays: why does it occur and what is the true role of leadership?Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Article
- An ecological approach to measuring synchronization abilities across the animal kingdom.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Acoustic coordination by allied male dolphins in a cooperative context.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2020Article
- Interactive rhythms across species: the evolutionary biology of animal chorusing and turn-taking.Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2019Article
- Rhythm and synchrony in animal movement and communication.Current zoology · 2019Article
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Abstract
Many animals that use acoustic communication synchronize their mate attraction signals: individuals precisely time their calls to overlap those of their neighbors. In contrast, synchrony in the mate attraction displays of species with visual/motion-based signals is rare. It has only been documented in five species of fiddler crabs. In all of them, small groups of males wave their single large claw in close synchrony. Here, I review what we know about synchrony in fiddler crabs, comparing the five species with each other to determine whether similar mechanisms and functions are common to all. I also propose future research questions that, if answered, would shed light on synchronous behavior in both visual and acoustic signallers.
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