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Title: Crab Fight, Philippines
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Male long-eyed box crab (Calappa hepatica) fight over a female. In the foreground one male is guarding a smaller female, while another male climbs on top of him and tries to break them up, and another male waits behind. Dauin, Dauin Marine Protected Area, Dumaguete, Negros, Philippines. Bohol Sea, tropical west Pacific Ocean.
- behaviour
- Dauin
- Dauin Marine Protected Area
- Dumaguete
- fighting
- long-eyed box crab: Calappa hepatica
- mating
- Negros Island
- Negros Oriental
- Philippines
- reprodcution
- reproduction
- Sulu Sea
- Visayas
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