11-04-2009, 07:38 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Prostitution For Protection - A Fiddler Crab Phenomenon
Crabs trade sex for protection
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Female fiddler crabs mate with their neighbours in exchange for protection.
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The discovery of the sex-for-security trait helps to explain a surprising quirk: how it is that females defend their territory just as successfully as males despite their smaller claws. It is also the first known case of male and female neighbours teaming up to defend territory in any species, according to lead researcher Richard Milner of the Australian National University in Canberra.
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Additionally, apparently prostitution isn't unique to Fiddler Crabs, however:
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Females of other species trade sex for material benefits. Red-winged blackbirds do so for the right to forage on a male's territory, and Adelie penguins exchange sex for stones to build their nests.
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11-04-2009, 08:00 AM
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#2 960 Prankster
Join Date: Dec 2003
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Originally Posted by Nehkara
Female fiddler crabs mate with their neighbours in exchange for protection.
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The CP user Driveway is a Fiddler Crab!
Hey Driveway, can you confirm if this story is true??? 
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11-04-2009, 08:02 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Calgary, AB
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I hear that this sort of thing happens among humans sometimes too.
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11-04-2009, 08:30 AM
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Just watch. Their lifestyle choices will catch up with them. God does not approve of this behaviour, and they will get more than a minor case of crabs on judgement day.
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11-04-2009, 08:35 AM
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and Female Humans have sex with their neighbors for money...
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11-04-2009, 08:36 AM
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Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by drewboy12
and Female Humans have sex with their neighbors for money...
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...and in Edmonton, for Boston Pizza gift cards.
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11-04-2009, 08:44 AM
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I'm not really sure how this constitutes prostitution.
Seriously, they mate and then the males help protect them? That doesn't really sound like prostitution to me, it sounds more like, you know, normal mating behavior.
Penguins help build a nest after they mate with a female? Wow, imagine that, a male actually wanting a nest for what presumably would be his offspring.
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11-04-2009, 08:46 AM
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I just don't get how this is something new? 
The female chooses its mate based on their fitness (ability to protect her) and he defends his territory which consists of neighbouring females from males trying to invade it? Obviously he wants a territory full of females for reproductive purposes.
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11-04-2009, 08:55 AM
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The word prostitution is being used here to describe when an individual uses sex to get something in return when it has nothing to do with procreation.
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11-04-2009, 09:05 AM
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Norm!
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Originally Posted by drewboy12
and Female Humans have sex with their neighbors for money...
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Where are these female human's and whats the password?
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11-04-2009, 09:09 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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Can crabs get crabs?
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11-04-2009, 09:18 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by starseed
Just watch. Their lifestyle choices will catch up with them. God does not approve of this behaviour, and they will get more than a minor case of crabs on judgement day.
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Didnt take many posts for the anti religion folk to show up.
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11-04-2009, 09:20 AM
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I'm totally serious when I say that science does not understand the human experience. What is the point of such a study?
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11-04-2009, 09:39 AM
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Originally Posted by peter12
I'm totally serious when I say that science does not understand the human experience. What is the point of such a study?
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Crab Pimps.
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11-04-2009, 09:39 AM
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I would think the point of the study is the same with all studies. It is an attempt to analyze animal behaviour, it is about studying the world around us. My little joke was just to point out that animals are not so far away from humans as people like my religious parents would like to believe.
You cannot criticize researchers for studying animal behaviour, that is what science is all about.
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11-04-2009, 10:31 AM
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: North Vancouver, British Columbia.
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Next time I get into an argument with a girl, I am calling her a fiddler crab.
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11-04-2009, 10:39 AM
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Those whores!
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11-04-2009, 10:45 AM
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Amazing!...Gold diggers do the exact same thing for stones, protection, and the right to forage in male territory as well.
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11-04-2009, 11:00 AM
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A Fiddler Crab
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Chicago
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At this point I can neither confirm, nor deny, the existence of a cluster of females living around me for protection.
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11-04-2009, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by getbak
...and in Edmonton, for Boston Pizza gift cards.
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or for crabs almost anywhere in the world
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