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ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2025

Biomimetic robots reveal flexible adjustment of sexual signalling in a wild invertebrate.

Joe A Wilde, Safi K Darden, Jordan D A Hart, Michael N Weiss, Samuel Ellis, Tim W Fawcett

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Article in Proceedings. Biological sciences, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Authors and funding

6 authors.

Joe A WildeCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9189-1811
Safi K DardenCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-2567-7902
Jordan D A HartCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.
Michael N WeissCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.
Samuel EllisCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9019-6040
Tim W FawcettCentre for Research in Animal Behaviour, University of Exeter, Exeter EX4 4QG, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6337-901X

Funding

Natural Environment Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Studies of communication in primates, birds and fish show that signalling behaviour is often flexibly adjusted depending on the presence, characteristics and behavioural states of others. Such flexibility is likely important in competitive social contexts such as sexual signalling, where attractiveness is directly affected by rival behaviour. Although sexual displays are often sensitive to the presence and proximity of rivals, less is known about the effect of changes in rival signalling. In this study, we used a biomimetic robot to manipulate rival morphology and waving behaviour in a wild population of fiddler crabs (

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Animal CommunicationBiomimeticsBrachyuraRoboticsSexual Behavior, AnimalAnimalsFemaleMalebioroboticscourtshipfiddler crabsexual selectionsexual signallingtactical adjustment

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PMID40763810
PMCPMC12324891

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