{"id":310778,"date":"2017-05-04T10:14:53","date_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=99d7914a7c9eb75d501bbc9f6c816ba5"},"modified":"2017-05-04T10:14:53","modified_gmt":"2017-05-04T14:14:53","slug":"cranky-crabs-in-broken-shells-often-have-the-upper-claw-in-fights-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=310778","title":{"rendered":"Cranky crabs in broken shells often have the upper claw in fights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sheer aggression rather than pure muscle strength often gives hermit crabs living in broken shells the edge during a fight. Broken shells constrain crabs’ activities because they are heavy and a large portion of them unusable. Crabs living in broken shells value an intact shell and will fight more aggressively to get a better one. This is according to research conducted by Guillermina Alcaraz of the Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de M\u00e9xico in Mexico and Gast\u00f3n Ignacio Jofre of Texas A&M University in the US. Their findings are published in Springer’s journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sheer aggression rather than pure muscle strength often gives hermit crabs living in broken shells the edge during a fight. Broken shells constrain crabs’ activities because they are heavy and a large portion of them unusable. Crabs living in broken shells value an intact shell and will fight more aggressively to get a better one. This is according to research conducted by Guillermina Alcaraz of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in Mexico and Gastón Ignacio Jofre of Texas A&M University in the US. Their findings are published in Springer’s journal Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=310778"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":310779,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310778\/revisions\/310779"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=310778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=310778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=310778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}