{"id":1638,"date":"2014-05-22T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2014-05-22T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-22T15:04:00","slug":"how-baby-fiddler-crabs-catch-a-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/how-baby-fiddler-crabs-catch-a-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"How baby fiddler crabs catch a wave<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1639\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fiddler-Crab2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1639\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1639\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fiddler-Crab2.jpg\" alt=\"While some species of fiddler crab can adjust their spawning times to account for changing ocean temperatures, others do not. Changing ocean temperatures, which can affect embryo development, may affect these species differently. (Photo credit: Kecia Kerr) \" width=\"400\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fiddler-Crab2.jpg 400w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fiddler-Crab2-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1639\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">While some species of fiddler crab can adjust their spawning times to account for changing ocean temperatures, others do not. Changing ocean temperatures, which can affect embryo development, may affect these species differently. (Photo credit: Kecia Kerr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A new study shows how some species of fiddler crabs can compensate for changing temperatures when timing their courtship. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Fiddler crabs sync up the hatching of their young with bimonthly higher tides in order to ensure they have the best chance of escaping predators. But at some times of year, cold temperatures can slow embryo development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> Researchers showed that some species of crab compensate for this by starting their mating cycle earlier during colder months, but others don\u2019t. These species will likely respond differently to a changing climate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0097593\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span>Original research paper<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0published in the the journal\u00a0<em>PLOS ONE\u00a0<\/em>on\u00a0<strong>May 15, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><a style=\"color: #1155cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/falco.biol.mcgill.ca\/~kecia\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kecia Kerr<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;\">, McGill University, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study shows how some species of fiddler crabs can compensate for changing temperatures when timing their courtship. Fiddler crabs sync up the hatching of their young with bimonthly higher tides in order to ensure they have the best chance of escaping predators. But at some times of year, cold temperatures can slow embryo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[39,174,113,31,917,1549,849,1290],"class_list":["post-1638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-animal-behaviour","tag-animals","tag-biology","tag-climate-change","tag-evolution","tag-mating","tag-quebec-en","tag-reproduction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Fiddler-Crab2.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-qq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1641,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/1641"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}