Aruba

Aruba National Park Foundation

7 days ago

🦀A Consortium of Crabs🦀
Fiddler crabs typically inhabit the saliñas and mangrove areas of Aruba, preferring to make their burrows in the mud near the water’s edge. These tiny crabs are colonial and territorial, which makes for lots of activity. The males are easily identified by their large claw, which they use to warn rival males and protect their territories. During breeding season they additionally use their claw to attract females, who are apparently impressed by size: the larger the claw, the more attractive the male. Despite their fighting, they travel in groups of thousands in search of their main food source: decaying plant material present in salt marsh mud and sediment of saliñas and mangrove areas. Fiddler crabs play a vital role in saliña and mangrove ecology because their feeding and burrowing helps keep marshes clean and helps them to grow. The many long, hollow burrows of a fiddler crab community help aerate the sediment of the saliña.

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🦀Un Hunta di Cangreu🦀
E cangreunan aki ta tipico pa saliña y area di mangel na Aruba. Nan ta gusta coba nan hol serca di awa den lodo. E cangreunan aki ta territorial y sosode den grupo, cual ta causa hopi actividad. E machonan ta facil pa reconoce na nan tenedo grandi cu nan ta usa pa intimida otro macho y proteha nan teritorio. Durante temporadi di broei, nan ta usa e tenedo pa atrahe hembranan, cu aparentemente ta impresiona cu e tamayo. Mas grandi e tenedo, mas atractivo e macho. A pesar di competi cu otro, nan ta migra den grupo grandi en buskeda di alimento: material organico den e lodo y sediment di saliña y area di mangel. Asina e cangreunan tin un funcion crucial den ecologia di saliña y mangel paso nan movecionnan ta mantene e areanan limpi y fortalese nan. E buraconan cu e cangreunan ta coba ta yuda trece aire den e sediment di saliñanan. ... See MoreSee Less