Hermit crabs found to use vibration to ward off would-be shell evictors
Wednesday, April 3, 2019 - 09:00
in Biology & Nature
A pair of researchers with Dartmouth College has found that Pacific hermit crabs use vibration to ward off other crabs trying to steal their shells. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, Louise Roberts and Mark Laidre describe their study of hermit crabs attempting to protect their shells and what they found.