Love songs in the sand: Researchers listen in to fiddler #crab courtship https://phys.org/news/2025-04-songs-sand-fiddler-crab-courtship.html

Constraints on percussive seismic signals in a noisy environment by European #FiddlerCrabs, Afruca tangeri https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/228/7/jeb249323/367607/Constraints-on-percussive-seismic-signals-in-a

"For fiddler #crabs, vibrational signals are a crucial part of their courtship routines... males with larger claws produced higher-energy seismic signals, with higher amplitude drumming spikes. This appears to prevent the male from being dishonest about their size"

This poem is a story about the survival of a river’s inhabitants. I took most of the photos on the St. Johns River. The story combines two Asian forms: Ki Shô Ten Khetsu and Haiku.

I used Zona AI music to generate the music. Here is what I requested: “Japanese traditional music, haiku, shakuhachi, koto, male and female duet.”

#rivers, #survival, #predators, #prey, #fowl, #fish, #crustaceans, #egrets, #heron, #cormorants, #fiddlercrabs, #kishôtenkhetsu, #haiku, #kishôtenhaiku, #AImusic

An #introduction

I'm a computational evolutionary biologist and data scientist, Director of the Center for Biological Data Science at Virginia Commonwealth University.

My research is eclectic and covers a broad range of taxa and topics, but often returns to #fiddlercrabs when I get bored.

#datascience #EvolutionaryBiology #bioinformatics