Study finds that male fiddler crabs are a**holes.

Photo: flickr/Bernard DUPONTThe males of many animal species will "coerce" females into mating by force. But according to this study, male fiddler crabs take it a step further. They lure females into their burrows, allow the ladies to enter first...and then block their escape. As the researchers in this study (delicately) put it, "upon entry 79% females that enter will become trapped and almost all of these females (90%) produce a clutch of eggs. Our observations suggest that males are able to gain fertilisations from females that may not have remained in the burrow by trapping them and coercing them to mate." Are male fiddler crabs the Ramsay Boltons of the animal world, or is there a more despicable animal rapist out there? Tell us in the comments below!Ladies First: Coerced Mating in a Fiddler Crab "In some species males increase their reproductive success by forcing females to copulate with ...