Rocky low tides and Fiddler Crabs

 


Yesterday we went to a tide pool at low tide. The characteristics of this tide pool was vastly different from the one before. The first one was more soft floor and sandy and this one as you can see from the picture was very rocky. It’s interesting to learn that we are able to examine all these different organisms and creatures because of the low tide and to learn that they are usually otherwise submerged. I learned that many of these organisms fight for space and have different ways to adapt to their conditions. The conditions being how do they adapt to temperature, lack or excess of oxygen, and much more. Also yesterday we learned a lot about fiddler crabs, the males have one feeding arm and one large mating arm while the females have two feeding arms. So the male fiddler crab waves his large mating arm to get the attention of the female and he also builds a place for them to mate. And if the arm and the home he built are bigger the more interested the female will be. 


-Hector Tucto


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