What is "fiddler crabs"

Usage examples of "fiddler crabs".

We spend the next weeks moving in and out of the cordgrass, disturbing the fiddler crabs, who brandish their colorful outsized claws in warning.

Amongst the roots skittered the purple and yellow fiddler crabs, each of them holding aloft a single disproportionably huge claw, and waving it in menace or ponderous greeting at the passing vessel.

There were tiny sand crabs and fiddler crabs, each sporting a single grotesquely oversized dueling claw.

A herring gull flew by, screaming, and troops of fiddler crabs charged a clump of cattails.

A score of tiny brownish fiddler crabs scuttled sideways away from him as he emerged.

Bond walked along the shore, took off his coat and tie, and sat in the shade of a bush of sea grapes and watched the fiddler crabs about their minuscule business in the sand while he whittled two chunky wedges out of the Jamaican cedar.

Or the helpless rabbits and the homely opossums, or even the lowly fiddler crabs?

My dad and mom and I talked about novels, old movies, the follies of politicians, poetry, music, history, science, religion, art, and about owls and deer mice and raccoons and bats and fiddler crabs and other creatures that shared the night with me.