雄招潮蟹发出“摩斯码”吸引异性
- 指点迷津
- 2024-11-30
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The
vibrations
1 and pulses that male fiddler
crabs
2 produce when they are trying to
lure
4 females into their
burrows
5 to mate are surprisingly
informative
6. These signals serve as a type of "Morse code" that the females decipher to learn more about the size and
stamina
7 of their suitors. This is according to a study by Japanese researchers Fumio Takeshita of Nagasaki University and Minoru Murai of the University of the Ryukyu, published in Springer's journal The Science of Nature. During mating season, the males of some fiddler
crab
3 species construct a raised
mound
8 or semidome near their burrows. They stay close to their burrows and wave their one
distinctively
9 large claw to attract females to their burrow's entrance. The ones able to wave their claws higher and for a longer period of time have the most success. Once a female comes closer, the male repeatedly emits vibrations to lure her even further inside his hide-out, with the intention to eventually mate. , ,Takeshita and Murai went to the tidal flat of Nagaura Island in Kumamoto in Japan to investigate how these vibrations might be
helping
10 female fiddler crabs (Uca lactea) to decide on a preferred mate. The researchers used a female
dummy
11 to
elicit
12 courtship vibrations from several males. These were recorded and analysed further. , ,The researchers learned that these
acoustic
13 signals consist of repetitive pulses. The lower the
dominant
14 frequency, the more likely it was that the male's body or
carapace
15 would be quite large. The length of the pulses decreased slightly when more vibrations were repeatedly produced. The
interval
16 between such pulses also increased when more pulses were produced., ,"These factors imply that the vibrations convey information on male characteristics, such as body size and stamina," says Takeshita.
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