Fiddler claws are cool
The storied, supersized claw of the male fiddler crab, a weapon of war and a lure in love, appears also to serve the prosaic function of keeping the males from cooking themselves while they’re out on the sand fighting and flirting. Males fiddlers grow one claw so large that waving it around is an athletic event and eating with it is basically impossible.
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